Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the homecoming last week for James Michael Curley, 71, who is both a Congressman ($10,000 a year) and Mayor of Boston ($20,000). He was returning from Washington, where a Federal Court jury had found him guilty of using the mails to defraud. The welcoming committee, 1,000 strong, included his old friend Maxwell Grossman, who is also Boston's Commissioner of Penal Institutions...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...management. Then a labor gang of German prisoners from the nearby Owosso prison camp arrived under MP guard. The manpower shortage was met-but there were ugly complications. Last week, in the Bay City (Mich.) Federal Court, the Misses Case and Druce were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government by aiding two German war prisoners, Gottfried Hobel and Erit Classen, to escape (maximum penalty: two years in prison). Points in their testimony...
...verdict: "Guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Government of the U.S. . . ." which carries a maximum sentence of $10,000 fine, two years in prison. When he heard the verdict, Joe Canella wheeled without a word, sat down beside his wife, dropped his head in his hands...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...