Word: defraud
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...registration statement contained "false and misleading statements." Old A. P., a born battler, haled SEC to court. While still there, SEC bit him again. Bank of America was accused of helping Timetrust, an investing company which owns Bank of America stock, in a "device, scheme and artifice to defraud" buyers of its certificates...
...McNelis declared her corporation bankrupt, admitted liabilities of $400,000. She blamed high printing costs. But a Federal Grand Jury accused her of falsifying circulation figures, withholding some $1,000,000 in rebates due advertisers. With three of her associates, Catherine McNelis was indicted for using the mails to defraud...
...trouble last week was a case that opened in Louisiana's Federal court against Abraham Lazard Shushan (who once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...
...Pittsburgh, indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government were 13 corporations, 45 individuals, several of them officers of the A. F. of L.'s Electrical Workers Union...
Seven Tower magazines (devoted to movies and radio, home and children, love and mystery) had shared a total circulation of some 900,000 copies before a Federal Grand Jury indicted Publisher Catherine McNelis for using the mails to defraud. (Case is still pending.) One of the best had been Tiny Tower for children, with around 150,000 readers...