Word: defrauded
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...using the males to defraud...
Marcus Garvey, Provisional President of Africa, came a cropper at last. Some time ago, he was convicted of using the mails to defraud (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923) in connection with operations of a "Black Star Line" of which he assumed the title of President...
Charles R. Forbes. The former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Charles R. Forbes, had been on trial for some weeks in the Federal District Court in Chicago, with one John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor. They were accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the letting of contracts for hospitals. Last week the case was given into the hands of the jury. The jurymen were immured for almost five hours. During that time, the defendants sat smiling and chatting with friends and their attorneys ? Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis...
...Chicago, is approaching the end of the egregious Veterans' Bureau scandal. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Bureau, and J. W. Thompson, a contractor, are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in connection with the letting of contracts for veterans' hospitals. The testimony in large part was noisome if not nauseous; but it is important in that it will probably result in a legat determination of the charges of corruption in the Veterans' Bureau under the Forbes regime...
...should be made a crime for a single individual to defraud or attempt to defraud the Government?it is now a crime to conspire to defraud the Government...