Word: defrauded
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...Samuel Insull will: 1) be arrested-the ship docks first at Boston where Sam Insull Jr. may meet him; 2) be carried off to Chicago; 3) probably be released on bail; 4) face trial on Federal charges of bankruptcy act violations and using the mails to defraud; 5) may be sentenced to 50 years in prison. 6) After the Federal Government gets through with him, he may also have to stand trial on Illinois charges of larceny and embezzlement...
...still a major executive without an executive post when he went on Katy's board of directors last year. With him went William Marcus Greve, onetime president of New York Investors, Inc., now in receivership, who is under indictment for using the mails to defraud. Arthur Atwood Ballantine, President Hoover's able Undersecretary of the Treasury, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co. Harvard-graduated, an expert on taxation, he remained at the Treasury at the request of President Roosevelt until last May, backstopped Secretary Woodin in the opening months of the New Deal...
...days he enjoyed some hope. Then word came that before going fishing fortnight ago President Roosevelt signed a warrant for Insull's arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...
...worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant, Mr. Glover, most of the blame for the whole affair must rest, for it was due to their connivance that the aviation companies were able to defraud the government; it would perhaps be enlightening to investigate the financial connections between these two gentlemen and their clients. At any rate, Mr. Brown may have the satisfaction of reflecting that his late colleague, the unspeakable Mr. Doak, is no longer without a rival...
...Iowa last week a grand jury investigating PWA graft indicted Lieutenant Governor Nelson George Kraschel for conspiracy to defraud the Government...