Word: defrauding
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...savings bonds in the essay contest. After an avalanche of letters, McMahon finally started making some awards. "I'm paying out of my own pocket," he says, "because I couldn't live with the letters from the kids' parents. It sounds like we were trying to defraud the kids, which we were...
...court to defend itself in a civil suit almost without precedent in the art world. The heirs of the late abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, together with the New York State attorney general, are charging that Marlborough and the executors of Rothko's estate conspired between them to defraud the estate by grossly undervaluing the paintings...
Former Attorney General John Mitchell, once Nixon's closest political adviser, was indicted for perjury and conspiracy to defraud; so was Nixon's chief campaign fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The arduously prepared prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon papers was dismissed because of Government wiretapping, burglary and other misconduct...
...defendants unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other to commit offenses against the United States . . . to defraud the United States and agencies thereof . . . interfering with and obstructing lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft, trickery and means that are dishonest...
Formally, the indictments charge Mitchell and Stans with conspiring to obstruct justice, conspiring to defraud the U.S., and perjury. Each man is accused of lying six times to the grand jury, which had been meeting in Manhattan for three months on the Vesco matter. Announcing the indictments in a halting voice, U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr., a devoted Republican who was appointed by Nixon when Mitchell headed the Justice Department, declared: "I regard this as a sad day in a series of sad days for those concerned about integrity in the administration of justice...