Word: defrauded
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...present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...
Clark W. Parker and his son Wyman stood before Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey in Manhattan last week, were fined $11,000 each and sentenced to five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...
Onetime Governor Jack Walton of Oklahoma and onetime Police Commissioner Richard Edward Enright of New York City were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at Oklahoma City on charges of using the mails to defraud. Their promotion: Universal Oil & Gas Co., now defunct...
Arrested on complaint of the elder Litsinger, Mrs. Blacklidge satisfied the Springfield police that she had been duped. Not content with this, Mr. Litsinger forwarded his accusations to the State's Attorney, charged Mrs. Blacklidge with complicity to defraud him, posted a reward of $2,000 for the three confidence men. He failed to identify notorious Jules ("Nicky") Arnstein of Manhattan as one of the cozeners...
...TIME told of how Charles Ponzi promised investors a 50% profit in 45 days through his scheme of buying postal reply coupons in countries with depreciated exchange and redeeming them at face value for U. S. stamps. In 1920 he was convicted of using the mails to defraud and sent to Federal penitentiary. In 1924 his term was over but he was then convicted on a State charge, sentenced for seven to nine years. In October he will be eligible for parole. TIME also said that the Ponzi collapse brought down several Boston trust companies. Biggest of the closing institutions...