Word: defrauding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...
Hugo Stinnes, son of the late Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, was arrested and jailed last week in Berlin, charged with attempting to defraud the German Government. His secretary, also arrested but later released, accused him of wanting to sell falsely registered war bonds...
Died. John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips, 54, alleged sewer pipe monopolist of Queens Co., N. Y., indicted for conspiracy to defraud New York City of some $8,000,000, and the U. S. of $1,376,134 in back taxes & penalties (TIME, Jan. 2, et seq.); of kidney trouble; at Atlantic City...
Last week the Mayor of Chicago was declared guilty, with six other men, of conspiring to defraud Chicago of $1,732,-279.23. Judge Hugo Friend of the Circuit Court wrote the decision, ordered the Mayor and his fellows to restore the boodle...
There was a new judge. There was a new jury. There was a certain amount of new evidence. But it was the same old case-the U. S. v. Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for alleged conspiracy to defraud...