Word: defrauding
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...November 1964, the Government went into Chicago's Federal District Court and got indictments on 49 counts (later reduced to 42) against the foundation, Dr. Ivy, Dr. Durovic, his lawyer-financier brother Marko, and Dr. Phillips. The charges ranged from mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the public to submitting false statements to Government agencies. Technically, the question of Krebiozen's efficacy as an anticancer drug was not at issue. But there was little doubt that the Government hoped that by convicting any or all of the defendants it could end the entire controversy...
...Lampoon had planned to defraud the Class of '69 with a 35-cent registration issue consisting of a masthead, 17 blank pages, and a final page that begins, "You have just been gypped by the Harvard Lampoon...
...tablets could help them lose as much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent product. The decision could result in fines and imprisonment for Drug Research's president and fines against the ad agency on 41 separate counts...
...Sherman's resumes to Radiation Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., a firm that Sherman had listed as a "former employer." Radiation officials checked with the federal postal authorities, and Sherman's jig was up. Arrested in Orlando, Sherman pleaded guilty to three counts of using the mails to defraud and now faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. Sighs Sherman: "I'm glad it's all over. It was horrible on the health. Driving 100,000 miles a year is more than anybody can stand...
...scandal because they have not realized how deeply it affects them. I think it is time all of us stopped laughing over the antics of politicians and woke up to the fact that the business of government is our business. When we tolerate a pickpocket philosophy in politics, we defraud ourselves...