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...coincidence Federal District Judge Luther Youngdahl last week dismissed two indictments charging Casey with conspiring to defraud the Government in surplus-ship sales to Greek shippers. Casey had won immunity by telling a federal grand jury about the transactions...
...Sinclair was lured from his father's Independence, Kans. drugstore into wildcatting by the oil derricks outside town, and made his first $1,000,000 within eight years. During the Teapot Dome scandal of the '20s, Sinclair was acquitted of conspiring with Interior Secretary Albert Fall to defraud the Government, later served 6½ months in jail for hiring private detectives to shadow his jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands...
SHIPPING Mogul Aristotle S. Onassis TIME, Jan. 19, 1953) and former Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Joseph E. Casey are among nine individuals and six corporations indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in multimillion-dollar deals to buy surplus U.S. ships after the war. The Government charge: the ships were bought for foreign owners through the use of U.S. corporations whose control was misrepresented, in violation of U.S. law forbidding sale of U.S. ships to aliens...
...high time the funeral is exposed for what it is: a mercenary means to defraud the duped survivor and invade the sanctity of sorrow...
...Judge Johnson was later indicted for "conspiracy to obstruct justice and to defraud .the Government" along with nine relatives and friends. Four were not tried because of the statute of limitations. Johnson and two relatives were acquitted, but the remaining three were convicted...