Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place probably had the bluest-ribbon prisoners' committee ever seen behind U.S. bars. Hoffa organized it informally to hear and act on complaints. It included, according to him, L.B.J.'s former aide, Bobby Baker, serving one to three years for theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government, and Tammany Leader, Carmine DeSapio, who went to Lewisburg last year for two years on three counts of bribery, as well as a former Army colonel, several businessmen and a Ph.D. Recalls Hoffa: "We were very active. We'd write memos to the warden, memos...
...group cited one example of a Master Charge merchant who sold sewing machines through phony advertising. Bank officials reply that they simply cannot patrol the ethics of every store owner who offers the plan, but that they investigate complaints from cardholders and have dropped merchants who were found to defraud. The Nader group also alleged that Citibank has violated the federal truth-in-lending law. On Master Charge bills, the report noted, Citibank gives special prominence to the minimum amount due for any given month, leaving the rest subject to interest charges. If the customer paid the amount of total...
...able to participate in legislative history while enriching himself through private business dealings. The scandal that broke in 1963 instantly converted his status from that of all-American striver to one of cuff-linked corruptor. Last week, four years after his conviction for income tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the Government and theft, he began a one-to three-year prison term. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief, found Baker remarkably mellow before parting with his freedom. Sidey's report...
...chairmanship. Next month Leasco filed a suit charging Maxwell and his associates with conspiring to make false statements about Pergamon's earnings and financial condition. Leasco demands $22 million in damages; Maxwell insists that the suit is a "ploy," and is suing Leasco, alleging conspiracy to defraud...
...almost as damning as an indictment. Emphasizing that no one is being formally charged, the judge's report nonetheless names Frenkil and his firm as co-defendants in a proposed grand jury indictment and notes that the grand jury was willing to charge him with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government of the right to the "disinterested services" of its officials by threats, promises and bribery. It is hardly less sparing of Long and Boggs, noting that they committed no criminal act but linking their names with a man who the grand jury believes...