Word: defrauder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Supreme Court is still pending Oilman Sinclair's appeal from a six-month jail sentence, imposed upon him for contempt of court, for jury-tampering in October, 1927. These two offenses were by-products of the larger charge of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves, on which Oilman Sinclair was acquitted last year...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...
Maurice E. Connolly, for 17 years Borough President of Queens, N. Y., has not been spitting, grass-walking, disturbing. But last week, in the Queens County Court House, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the City in $29,500,000 contracts for sewer construction. Famed Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner, conducting the State's prosecution, showed circumstantial evidence that Mr. Connolly had aided the late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From...
...haggard jury said GUILTY after 24 hours of bickering. Justice Arthur Sidney Tompkins gave the maximum penalty. Many were shocked. It appeared that conspiracy to defraud the city, when millions were involved, was simply a misdemeanor. Mr. Connolly was sentenced to a year in jail, a fine of $500. Criminally he had attained no greater stature than a subway spitter...
...accounts were audited-no perfunctory audit, this-and Baptists earned that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established a restitution fund to make up Carnes's alleged defalcations...