Word: defrauded
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...indictment charged two Germans and two Swiss with conspiring and their companies with conspiring to defraud the Government, and added further that John T. King, former Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, received $50,000 for taking part in the conspiracy; that the late Jesse W. Smith (notorious from the Department of Justice and Veterans' Bureau investigations) received $25,000, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, got $391,000 in Liberty bonds, for approving and securing completion of the plot. All these were indicted except John T. King, who it is said is needed as a witness...
...differing only slightly from it. It has a President, elected for four years; a Senate and a House of Representatives, elected for six and four years respectively. All electors must be of Negro blood and property owners. *Notorious Negro now confined at Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud...
There was only one point on which he refused to talk-his alleged loan of $100,000 to onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Fall. His lawyers insisted that he not touch on that since he will soon be placed on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government; and that his story of that loan, as told to the Senate Investigating Committee, will not be admissible as evidence, although another statement of the same facts to a third party would...
...Contentions. The Government declared that the $100,000 "loan" was a bribe, that Secretary Fall had fraudulently induced President Harding to give him authority to make the leases and contracts, that Fall and Doheny had conspired to defraud the Government. It demanded 1) cancellation of the leases and contracts, 2) repayment for all oil taken by the Doheny companies, or received by them for constructing oil tanks at Hawaii...
...Black Cross liner Booker T. Washington crept up New York harbor to its berth. This is one of the ships with which Marcus Garvey (now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud) (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association planned to use in recolonizing Africa with U. S. Negroes...