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Died, Timothy J. ("Tim") Crowe, 58, onetime (1926-28) president of Chicago's Sanitary District, while awaiting appeal from his conviction to defraud taxpayers out of $5,000,000 during the Sanitary District's scandalously extravagant era (1926-28); of heart disease; at Williams Bay, Wis. After his trial in February 1932, he had said: "I'll never live to go to jail." Last week the Chicago Hearstpapers revealed that Patrick-Nash, Cook County Democratic boss, whose contracting firm did a big business with the Sanitary District, was forced to settle a Federal tax claim on unreported...
...important municipal job. As it was, Engineer Kelly lived well, played golf, enjoyed his friends, kept out of the limelight until- May 30, 1930 was a black day for Ed Kelly. Along with the other trustees of the Sanitary District he was indicted for bribery and conspiracy to defraud taxpayers...
...jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...
...these revelations lay a point for a defense that must prove no intent to defraud. It was not so much the sale as the repurchase at the same price that aroused the U. S. Government's suspicions. By repurchasing the stock he sold her, Mr. Mitchell got his wife's small fortune "out of hock," whereas he became merely a little more in debt to the House of Morgan than he was before. Was his motive, then, prudence rather than tax-evasion? Elizabeth Rend Mitchell is not in the courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children...
...Daniel, their sons Rowland, 10, and Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced...