Word: defrauding
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Indicted by the Justice Department's Thurman Arnold last year were Pittsburgh's Electrical Contractors Association and twelve member firms. The charge, on which they were fined $54,000 after pleading no contest: conspiracy to defraud the Government of about $745,000 by rigging prices on PWA projects. Mr. Marcus promptly sued the contractors under...
Above all, I believe that I should do no injustice to or take any unfair advantage of any man, woman or child, either directly or indirectly, and that I should discourage others from so doing by obeying God's commandment not to kill, steal, defraud or deceive, and not to covet what rightfully belongs to others...
...husband denied he had fathered his wife's child. Blood-group tests showed that his wife was not even the child's mother. Investigation then showed that she 1) had been married six times before, 2) could not have a child, 3) had adopted the child to defraud her latest husband...
Convicted of using the mails to defraud the State of $31,000 was Louisiana's ex-Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), last of the big Longsters...
Critically ill of apoplexy in Port Chester, N. Y. lay ex-Explorer Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, 74, who insists he beat Peary to the North Pole on April 21, 1908. Convicted in 1923 of using the mails to defraud, he was paroled in 1930. On his sick bed he was informed last week (by his Explorer Friend Ralph Shainwald von Ahlefeldt) that President Roosevelt had granted him a full pardon, restored his civil rights. Gasped Dr. Cook: "Thanks -happy," sank back into a coma...