Word: defraud
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...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...
JOHN W. DEAN III, 36, chief White House counsel and a major Watergate prosecution witness. Pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and to defraud the U.S. in the Watergate coverup; now serving a one-to-four-year prison sentence...
...fatally defective." But a federal grand jury got help when Larry E. Williams, a former Gurney aide, pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and agreed to testify against the Senator. The grand jury heard enough evidence to charge Gurney with seven felonies, including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts of perjury. His two aides and the two helpful HUD officials were also indicted, as were two former officers of Florida's Republican Party-Earl M. Crittenden, onetime state G.O.P. chairman, and George Anderson, former state party treasurer...
...agreed to take up the question of whether the grand jury had the authority to cite Nixon. The court also unsealed the jury's citation, which said it believed "that there is probable cause that Richard M. Nixon, among others, was a member of the conspiracy to defraud the United States and to obstruct justice...
...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...