Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar case?the Government trying to cancel the lease of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (known as Elk Hills) to the Doheny interests?had rendered his decision (TIME, June 8). He had decided that the lease should be cancelled. The Two Cases. In each case, the Government charged 1) fraud and conspiracy in the execution of the leases, 2) the lessor's lack of authority to make the leases...
...cases were practically identical, even as to the evidence presented, except as to part of the evidence of fraud. In the Doheny case, there was undisputed evidence that Mr. Doheny had made a loan of $100,000 in cash (carried in the black satchel) to Secretary of the Interior Fall when the Doheny leases were under consideration. In the Sinclair case, the only admitted payment to Fall was one of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds made after the latter had left office. The Government tried to establish that Fall had also received several hundred thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds which...
...Decisions. 1) Judge Kennedy held that there was no conspiracy or fraud, that the payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds "falls short of constituting a fraudulent transaction." that the evidence of other payments was insufficient...
...Secondly, there is the significant lack of material damage to the Government which usually attends allegations of fraud, for, in the case at bar, no attempt has been made to show that the lease in controversy in itself was a bad lease for the Government, except perhaps theoretically by counsel; but, on the other hand, the testimony of the plaintiff's own witnesses who are competent to speak upon the subject tends to show that it is a lease much more favorable to the Government than they as oil operators would be willing to assume...
...time being, however, the Government has the advantage. The Government suit to recover Teapot Dome from Harry F. Sinclair's companies is now waiting decision. In the Teapot Dome case, the evidence of fraud was far less impressive-in fact, very fragmentary because so many witnesses were out of the country. But, if the Cheyenne judge follows the same reasoning as the Los Angeles judge, he will void the Teapot Dome lease-on the ground that President Harding had no authority to give Secretary Fall control of the Naval oil reserves...