Word: defrauded
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...theory: "A consolidation of bankruptcy companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...
Three days later, the twelve jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...Again, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson personally besought the President to pardon onetime Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, who is serving a ten-year term in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud (TIME...
...happened, they knew not how, that they were the "twelve good men and true," who were selected by lot to decide whether or not Albert B. Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, and Edward L. Doheny, oil potentate, were guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales...
...Reservation and Pearl Harbor contracts before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals when the subject-matter is within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit? Why involve the late Attorney General in contempt of court when newspapers a few months old show that the charge was one of conspiracy to defraud the United States? Who is M. A. Dangherty? What did he have to do with King? Of course, such examples portray the absence of that minimum of labor and keenness that should typity a reporter. But more, they could not have been made by one with some conception of judicial...