Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finnegan, who resigned under fire, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for misconduct in office (TIME...
Convicted last week for misconduct as a U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue: James P. Finnegan, 51, once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...
...that point, said Shapiro, "I walked into my office and called Mr. Delaney. I said, 'Mr. Friedman and Mr. Finnegan are in my office and claim they are tax experts. Are they all right...
...Good Friend. Brought to trial four weeks ago, Delaney was confronted by Maxwell Shapiro, a Boston wool merchant, who testified that in April 1949 a couple of men named Daniel Friedman and Hugh Finnegan had come to his office. Somehow they had discovered that Shapiro owed the Federal Government more than $140,000 in back taxes. According to Shapiro, the conversation was as follows...
Friedman was indeed an expert from the Estate Research Bureau in New York City. Quiet Hugh Finnegan is a brother of the then St. Louis Tax Collector Jim Finnegan, who himself is under indictment for bribery...