Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Campus newspaper delivery is undoubtably a tricky task but such difficulty is no license for the Harvard Delivery Service to defraud student subscribers or for the University to default on its oversight responsibilities...
...become an admirer of Glenn Turner, the Koscot cosmetics huckster from Florida, and became his lawyer and adviser. The Government charged Bailey also made speeches endorsing investments in Turner's franchises. When the law came down on Turner for conspiracy to defraud investors, Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm...
...page indictment, the grand jury accused Gurney on seven felony counts: one each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts alleging perjury before the grand jury itself. He could face up to 42 years in prison. Estimates of the money said to have been raised illegally or to have gone illegally unreported have run as high as $400,000, and Gurney has even admitted that the total might have topped $300,000. The grand jury settled for $233,000 as more provable...
...Wells County jury convicted Parr of threatening a local restaurant owner with a gun, and he was fined $100. He was again discovered to be behind in his taxes-this time more than $1 million-and went into bankruptcy. He was also convicted of using the mails to defraud a school district of $220,000 by issuing checks to nonexistent people...
...happened to use the mail in the collection of inflated fees for a bond deal. Thompson's men looked closely and with growing delight. The law provided a maximum sentence of $1,000 and five years for anyone who used the mail in any "scheme or artifice to defraud...