Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week they had been locked in the jury room, deliberating over a ton of evidence containing 1,500,000 words & figures. From the evidence and previous testimony they reached the conclusion that Wilbur Burton Foshay, onetime Northwest utility tycoon, and six associates were guilty of using the mails to defraud. Not of this opinion was No. 12, one Mrs. Genevieve Clark, who stoutly held out for acquittal. After a week of argument, some 200 ballots, the jurors told Judge Joseph W. Molyneaux an agreement was impossible. He asked them to deliberate one more day, then gave up, ordered...
...Mere failure to file an income tax does not constitute 'attempt' to evade or defeat the tax. ... To convict you must find beyond reasonable doubt that there was intent to defraud and also some act done in furtherance of that intent...
Awaiting trials for using the mails to defraud and for criminal conduct of his companies, Mr. Bob has been busy again. Three weeks ago he brought bankruptcy suits against several of his pyramided companies, saying they were paying other creditors in preference to him. Fortnight ago he brought suit for $25,000,000 against Mr. Heckscher, Mr. Heckscher's son G. Maurice and 16 other men, charging they had run his companies illegally during his "absence." Last week silent Mr. Heckscher was no longer silent, brought a $250,000 suit against Promoter Bob on grounds of fraudulent representations made...
...present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...
Clark W. Parker and his son Wyman stood before Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey in Manhattan last week, were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...