Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heights, N.J. boy died of sodium-nitrite poisoning (TIME, April 6), had a sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year-old boy and rendered his family seriously ill. The public must be protected...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
...part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians who managed the flow of puzzle information were accused of using the mails and long-distance telephone to defraud, but were not arrested; the crimes are not extraditable...
ALEXANDER GUTERMA has been indicted by a federal grand jury, charged with conspiracy to defraud by failing to file financial reports on his F. L. Jacobs Co. (TIME, Feb. 23). Meantime, a U.S. district court named two trustees to reorganize Jacobs under federal bankruptcy...
...There are crises when people lose their skeletons and dwindle to a mess of unresolved aims, regrets, opportunities." And it is in such crises that the aimless look hungrily around in search of men who dazzle, hypnotize, even defraud them by sheer audacity. That is the text of British Novelist Peter Vansittart's latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year...