Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charged in the suit was that the defendants had conspired to defraud the government by arranging the sale of the seized Bosch property for $4,500,000, some $5,000,000 less than it was allegedly worth.* Since if the suit were won the proceeds would eventually go to the German Bosch Co, the petition to discontinue it seemed to indicate that Herr Bosch's agreement with the U. S. interests had become very complete indeed...
...Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific charge against Mr. Rice was using the mails to defraud in the case of Idaho Copper...
...sent Fall $100,000 in cash by his son. Four months later Doheny's oil company had the Elk Hills lease from which it expected to make $100,000,000. Two years ago a jury tried Fall and Doheny on practically the same evidence for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. That jury acquitted them. This time the jury had to judge, independent of Doheny, Fall's intent in receiving this cash. It found his intent criminal, the cash a bribe...
Last week began another of those trips. Cleared of conspiring with Oilman Edward L. Doheny to defraud the U. S., Fall has yet to be cleared of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...
...Fall has also to be cleared of conspiring with Sinclair to defraud the U. S. It was with Sinclair that Fall last went on trial, two years ago, when Sinclair shadowed the jury and a mistrial was declared. When that case was retried in the spring of 1928, Fall was too ill to be a codefendant. Sinclair was acquitted (TIME, April...