Word: defrauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detectives got busy. Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran was haled into court, held in $20,000 bail, charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to defraud. William Wilbur J. Cooke prudently disappeared. Also missing was a Mrs. E. E. Caroline Saunders of New York. Meanwhile Inspector Warren H. Liese of the Boston Bureau of Criminal Investigation journeyed to New York, added immeasurably to the detective-story air of the whole business by producing the traditional sinister oriental, an expert Japanese repairer of antique porcelain who labors in a little art shop on Sixth Avenue, Manhattan and is known as "Mr. Chicago." Inspector...
...love-making agent communicated with Manhattan, making charges. Last week?result of his efforts?Examiners Samuel Stansfield and William F. Gilroy were indicted by a Federal grand jury on two counts: conspiring to defraud the Government, accepting bribes. Also indicted last week were customs brokers and a truckman involved in the conspiracy. Previously indicted, sentenced to Atlanta, were Paul Rabkin and Joseph Y Perelman, onetime Superfine Watch Co. partners, by questioning whom Federal Judge Henry Warren Goddard hopes to arrest more of their associates. Last week he told them: "I don't believe your story. Both of you men have...
...Chicago, President Edward Joseph Kelly and five members of his South Park Commission were indicted last week for conspiring to defraud the Sanitary District of $5,000,000 in public monies...
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...