Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the State, plunging into account books like alligators plopping in a bayou, were investigators, Federal. State and parish. They were probing WPA irregularities, PWA irregularities, use of the mails to defraud, income-tax evasion and fraud, defalcations and irregularities in L. S. U. construction, evasions of the Connally "hot oil" law, what happens to the famed 5% deductions from all State employes' paychecks, and everything else they could think...
...income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward to a much longer sentence...
...Trenton, N. J., Rocco Favorito & wife, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, declared before the State Supreme Court that as man & wife they were legally one, therefore could not be guilty of conspiracy. The Court ruled that man & wife are legally...
Presently surrendering to U. S. authorities, genial Promoter Bob found juries no more of a problem than the speculators he had cajoled. No less than three juries split over the question of whether or not he had used the mails to defraud. The case was finally nol-prossed...
Last month Promoter Bob, his hair thinner but his personality still as bland as ever, was in new trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge...