Word: defrauded
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...have never seen so many felonies committed by one individual. . . Here is a man who devised a scheme to defraud, and carried it on almost entirely by the use of the mails. He has testified that he wrote 2,500 letters, and, if so, he is guilty of violating the statutes 2,500 times. He is money under false pretenses. He has violated not only written laws but laws of his own conscience as well...
...which went to the wall. He was investigated by a grand jury and indicted for larceny, embezzlement, forgery, obtaining money under false pretenses and issuing false financial statements. Subsequently, the Post Office Department investigated him and he was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for using the mails to defraud...
...expedients. He admitted on the witness stand that he had signed the names of other people and of non-existent corporations to notes which he afterwards sold as valid obligations. The amount of these notes was about $1,000,000. He insisted, however, that he had no intent to defraud because he had indorsed the notes in his own name and was personally responsible for them...
...President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because it was made without advertisement or competitive bidding; 4) because Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair "did combine, conspire and confederate" to defraud the Govern-ment in making it; 5) because Edwin Denby, the then Secretary of the Navy, "exercised no discretion," but signed the lease as a matter of form. The Court granted the temporary injunction. Joseph Strauss (Rear Admiral) and Albert E. Wates (Vice President of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Companies...
...Rumely had been in close association with pro-Germans. Employees of the Mail testified that Dr. Rumely had been pro-Ally and had not influenced their point of view in presenting the news. Finally, three months ago, he and his two attorneys were convicted on one count-conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government by concealing the German ownership of the Mail. The jury recommended mercy but-they were given sentences of a year and a day. An appeal to the Supreme Court failed...