Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two years, beginning in 1951, a House Judiciary Subcommittee pried into suspicious tax and fraud cases that had brought scandal to the Justice Department during the Truman Administration. The most spectacular witness was a drawling, small-town lawyer named Theron Lamar Caudle (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951 et seq.). But more often than not the committee's trail led toward the man who had brought Caudle from Wadesboro, N.C. to Washington: onetime Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, since 1949 Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Justice Clark was asked to testify, he declined with dignity...
Some of the conditions the subcommittee found worthy of criticism with regard to Clark arose in a case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...
...James G. Smyth, ousted collector for Northern California, acquitted on charges of tax fraud...
...attorney general. Reporter Simms sniffed a good story in his routine chore. And last week his careful tabulations paid off in a story as big as the election itself. After checking A.P.'s tabulations against the official count, a Birmingham grand jury indicted two men for vote fraud...
...found that in Jefferson County Porter's total had indeed been changed from the announced 23,060 to 23,660. On the official tally sheets, he found that "ones had been changed to sevens, zeros to sixes and sevens to nines." Simms promptly wrote a story charging vote fraud, and put it on the wire...