Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mill price was then $36). In Brooklyn, a federal grand jury indicted roly-polyIsadore Ginsberg, 52, and his son Maurice. (Ginsberg was scored as a "vicious grey marketeer" by a congressional committee probing the grey market in building materials, TIME, Jan. 26). The charge: using the mails to defraud 31 contractors of $15,921 for materials never delivered...
Bored Bostonians raised no outcry, saw little that was reprehensible or even novel in Convict Curley's return to office. He had been in jail before; in 1903 he served 60 days for conspiring to defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston four times, governor of Massachusetts once and U.S. Representative thrice. Political observers, knowing that Jim was pouting because President Truman took so long to let him out this time, figured that the boss might fold his hands and sit out the 1948 campaign...
After one hour and 50 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Munitions-Makers Murray and Henry Garsson and ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to defraud the Government (TIME, July 15, 1946 et seq.). The maximum sentence for each count: a $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
James Michael Curley had come full circle, and he looked it. Even before he began his spectacular political career-four terms as Boston's mayor, one term as Massachusetts governor and three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives-Curley had done time for trying to defraud the Civil Service Commission. Now, 72, gaunt with sickness, he was back in jail, this time for using the mails to defraud...
...with a bad heart and a queasy stomach, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky looked remarkably fit when his trial began last April. For a man on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government, he was amazingly full of bluster. For a onetime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he was in the company of unsavory codefendants: the mysterious brothers Garsson,* owners of a shadowy wartime munitions empire. But Andy May was an amazing...