Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days he enjoyed some hope. Then word came that before going fishing fortnight ago President Roosevelt signed a warrant for Insull's arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...
...worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant, Mr. Glover, most of the blame for the whole affair must rest, for it was due to their connivance that the aviation companies were able to defraud the government; it would perhaps be enlightening to investigate the financial connections between these two gentlemen and their clients. At any rate, Mr. Brown may have the satisfaction of reflecting that his late colleague, the unspeakable Mr. Doak, is no longer without a rival...
...District of Columbia a Civil Works Administration supervisor was arrested last week for collecting bribes from workers seeking advancement. In Los Angeles two women were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the Government in CWA work and a grand jury was just warming up for a series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were...
...Iowa last week a grand jury investigating PWA graft indicted Lieutenant Governor Nelson George Kraschel for conspiracy to defraud the Government...
...spent a total of $4,000,000 on lawyers' fees in various attempts to keep out of jail, and his attorneys have included Max D. Steuer and onetime U. S. Senator James Reed.† But in 1928 George Graham Rice was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of Idaho Copper shares and sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years. An additional five-year sentence was suspended on condition that he report regularly to a probation officer after release...