Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SHIPPING Mogul Aristotle S. Onassis TIME, Jan. 19, 1953) and former Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Joseph E. Casey are among nine individuals and six corporations indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in multimillion-dollar deals to buy surplus U.S. ships after the war. The Government charge: the ships were bought for foreign owners through the use of U.S. corporations whose control was misrepresented, in violation of U.S. law forbidding sale of U.S. ships to aliens...
...high time the funeral is exposed for what it is: a mercenary means to defraud the duped survivor and invade the sanctity of sorrow...
...Judge Johnson was later indicted for "conspiracy to obstruct justice and to defraud .the Government" along with nine relatives and friends. Four were not tried because of the statute of limitations. Johnson and two relatives were acquitted, but the remaining three were convicted...
...conviction of two Bridges aides for conspiring to defraud the Government at his naturalization hearing. Bridges, under sentence of five years and free under $25,000 bail, will appeal...
...Trust. In Hitchin, England, William Newnham, 65, appeared in person to pay his income tax, then locked the local tax staff in their office "so they can't defraud anyone else...