Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation touched off by the Record, Representative Bell admitted that while serving in the state senate he accepted more than $27,000 in "legal fees" from promoters of high-profit veterans' land deals. He was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the state of $154,100 in one of the deals, but escaped prosecution when the indictment was killed on a technicality over the qualifications of one of the grand jurors...
...Alesandro. who helped to get the Orioles their big-league franchise-and what happened to Tommy was all bad: his son was involved in a teen-age vice scandal, his wife admitted receiving $11,000 from a city contractor, and the contractor was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city. For a time, both D'Alesandro and the Orioles were flat on their backs: the ball club in the cellar and the mayor in the hospital with a nervous collapse. Eventually, little Tommy D'Alesandro jumped out of bed and into his elevator shoes...
...young D'Alesandro was charged with committing perjury at the same trial. (He was again acquitted.) Charges of graft were billowing around City Hall, e.g., the mayor's friend, Dominic Piracci, who had most of the city's garage-building business, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city, and the record revealed that Piracci (whose daughter married the mayor's eldest son) had written checks totaling more than $11,000 to the mayor's wife. All this was too much for Mayor Tommy: he had a nervous collapse that hospitalized him for more than...
...coincidence Federal District Judge Luther Youngdahl last week dismissed two indictments charging Casey with conspiring to defraud the Government in surplus-ship sales to Greek shippers. Casey had won immunity by telling a federal grand jury about the transactions...
...Sinclair was lured from his father's Independence, Kans. drugstore into wildcatting by the oil derricks outside town, and made his first $1,000,000 within eight years. During the Teapot Dome scandal of the '20s, Sinclair was acquitted of conspiring with Interior Secretary Albert Fall to defraud the Government, later served 6½ months in jail for hiring private detectives to shadow his jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands...