Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest James Stevens, genial hotel man of Chicago's hotel-&-insurance family, was arrested last week on a charge of cospiracy to defraud stricken Illinois Life Insurance Co. of ''more than $1,000,000." Last month auditors learned that the sluicing of funds from Stevens-controlled Illinois Life into Stevens-owned hotels had cost Illinois Life $12,456,409 (TIME, Jan. 23). Ernest James Stevens was director of the insurance company, his brother Raymond president, his father James William chairman. Brother Ernest had obtained passports, was going abroad with his family. Later, all three Stevens were indicted...
...Colonel Luke Lea and his son Luke Jr., Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud an Asheville, N. C. bank, were ordered arrested last week after they failed to surrender to serve jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union Indemnity Co. (now in receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains...
...insurance, that it bonded all state employes, all bridge and highway contractors. Most of the group's insurance and bonds were immediately taken over last week by the Aetna group of Hartford, including the $50,000 bonds of Colonel Luke Lea & Son, Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud a bank...
...Percy Jay Fuller, Manhattan stockbroker, was convicted in June 1928 of using the mails to defraud in a scheme to convert garbage to gasoline. Released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last June, New York authorities requested his extradition on a perjury charge connected with the same case. Governor Russell refused on the grounds that Fuller's further prosecution was an attempt to collect a private debt...
...Luke Lea 6 Son were about their publishing business in Nashville last week when they learned that the U. S. Supreme Court had for the second time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond, the Leas were ordered rounded up to serve jail sentences. Onetime U. S. Senator, close associate of brash Banker Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea tried to kidnap the Kaiser as a Christmas present for Woodrow Wilson...