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Indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Scranton, Pa., on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government: Pennsylvania's longtime (1945-47, 1949-56) Democratic Representative (and chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic Committee) William J. Green Jr., 46, and former Democratic Representative (1945-47) Herbert J. McGlinchey, 52 (who ran unsuccessfully last month for re-election against Republican Hugh Scott), as well as five Pennsylvania contractors. The indictment against Green charged that he received $10,000 and realized an extra $20,000 in insurance commissions from the contractors, and, as a member of the Armed...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week: 14 officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the union for those services, i.e., some had "pretended" to resign from the Communist Party and had filed false non-Communist affidavits with the NLRB. Among the indicted: "Mine-Mill's'' eye-patched onetime President Maurice E. Travis. 46. already under an eight-year federal sentence (and free...
...investigation touched off by the Record, Representative Bell admitted that while serving in the state senate he accepted more than $27,000 in "legal fees" from promoters of high-profit veterans' land deals. He was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the state of $154,100 in one of the deals, but escaped prosecution when the indictment was killed on a technicality over the qualifications of one of the grand jurors...
...Alesandro. who helped to get the Orioles their big-league franchise-and what happened to Tommy was all bad: his son was involved in a teen-age vice scandal, his wife admitted receiving $11,000 from a city contractor, and the contractor was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city. For a time, both D'Alesandro and the Orioles were flat on their backs: the ball club in the cellar and the mayor in the hospital with a nervous collapse. Eventually, little Tommy D'Alesandro jumped out of bed and into his elevator shoes...
...young D'Alesandro was charged with committing perjury at the same trial. (He was again acquitted.) Charges of graft were billowing around City Hall, e.g., the mayor's friend, Dominic Piracci, who had most of the city's garage-building business, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city, and the record revealed that Piracci (whose daughter married the mayor's eldest son) had written checks totaling more than $11,000 to the mayor's wife. All this was too much for Mayor Tommy: he had a nervous collapse that hospitalized him for more than...