Word: defraud
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...Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never in any manner, shape or form-everything I did for them was gratis and in their own interest...
...under suspicion by the Law. In copying figures to a monthly report, I made a mistake and now I am required to send affidavits stamped by a notary public (for which 50? is charged), stating my reasons for the mistake and swearing that I am not trying to defraud the Government by paying them 2/10 of a cent too much...
...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary...
...Booth Dickinson that there would be no more indictments. The time had come to name names. Promptly Judge Dickinson, 79, for 22 years a member, of the Federal judiciary, ordered the previous indictments made public, issued bench warrants for twelve persons on four counts for using the mails to defraud and two counts of conspiracy. In the dozen were such prominent Philadelphians...