Word: defrauder
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Last week the Department, after an investigation, declared that evidently many a foreign embassy at Washington has been thus used for smuggling high-priced goods into the U. S.; that a band of international crooks has thus been able to defraud the U. S. Treasury of at least $350,000 in duty. Chilean Ramon Silva, the band's leader, was arrested in India, confessed his crime...
...last week Bishop Cannon suffered a reverse on his moral front. The Senate committee returned to the subject of his embarrassment at Dallas and published a subpoenaed correspondence between Bishop Cannon and his "broker," Harry Goldhurst, now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud "purchasers" of stock he never bought for them...
...climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
Charged in the suit was that the defendants had conspired to defraud the government by arranging the sale of the seized Bosch property for $4,500,000, some $5,000,000 less than it was allegedly worth.* Since if the suit were won the proceeds would eventually go to the German Bosch Co, the petition to discontinue it seemed to indicate that Herr Bosch's agreement with the U. S. interests had become very complete indeed...
...Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific charge against Mr. Rice was using the mails to defraud in the case of Idaho Copper...