Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against ten of the twelve. Among these were Texas Gulf President Claude Stephens, Executive Vice President Charles Fogarty, and Director Thomas S. Lament, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust. In an 81-page opinion, Judge Bonsai found that the ten had acted without intent to deceive or defraud anyone. Still standing are charges against Texas Gulf Secretary David Crawford and Richard Clayton, a geophysicist who had helped survey the Timmins ore area. When they bought Texas Gulf stock in April 1964, said the judge, they may have been withholding "material information." Whether they can keep the stock will...
...entitled to use his own name for his business? The common-law right allows a man to use his own name as long as he does not use it to defraud the public. But a recent ruling in California suggests that the right may be dwindling. The owners of Tarantino's, a well-known restaurant on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, brought suit against Joseph Tarantino and his family, asking that they be enjoined from using their surname on the restaurant that they were operating near Lake Tahoe. A trial court found for Joe Tarantino...
...November 1964, the Government went into Chicago's Federal District Court and got indictments on 49 counts (later reduced to 42) against the foundation, Dr. Ivy, Dr. Durovic, his lawyer-financier brother Marko, and Dr. Phillips. The charges ranged from mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the public to submitting false statements to Government agencies. Technically, the question of Krebiozen's efficacy as an anticancer drug was not at issue. But there was little doubt that the Government hoped that by convicting any or all of the defendants it could end the entire controversy...
...Lampoon had planned to defraud the Class of '69 with a 35-cent registration issue consisting of a masthead, 17 blank pages, and a final page that begins, "You have just been gypped by the Harvard Lampoon...
...tablets could help them lose as much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent product. The decision could result in fines and imprisonment for Drug Research's president and fines against the ad agency on 41 separate counts...