Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a District of Columbia federal grand jury returned indictments charging May, his "warm friends" Murray and Henry Garsson, and the Garsson's Washington business agent Joseph F. Freeman, with conspiring to defraud the Government. May was accused of accepting $16,000 in checks and cash from the Garssons and arranging for the payment...
...world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
...Manhattan, the trial of Henry Lustig had barely begun when the sky started caving in on the dour little owner of Manhattan's twelve glittery Longchamps restaurants. Unexpectedly, two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring with Lustig to defraud the U.S. of $2,872,766 in taxes on wartime profits...
...reason Critic "Loughlin" had her Irish up was James Michael Curley, the city's mayor. Boston recently gave a brass-band welcome to Mayor Curley after he had been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back...
...using the mails to defraud, Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston was sentenced this week to serve six to 18 months in prison, pay a $1,000 fine. The Mayor, who is also a Massachusetts Congressman, and an old hand at dodging the rap, quailed: "I have never begged for mercy in my life. ... I don't do it now. But I do ask for justice." But he wasn't beaten yet-until he has taken a Supreme Court appeal, he will remain on hand to help govern his town & country...