Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birrell's New York lawyer has said he will advise Birrell to come home and fight the case. But convicting him will be no easy task because of the intricacy of his maneuvers. Said John Devaney, chief of the New York SEC's fraud division: "Birrell's strategy is well-nigh infallible...
...tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
...does he go on? The psychiatrists have grandly labeled the lovable fraud a borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion...
...milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance Board, as required, Magistrate Geoffrey Rose, 69, sentenced Widow Christos to two months in jail for fraud...
...dishes')." ¶ "When you get there, kick over the ladder. You will undoubtedly teach, and you must remember at all times that every student represents a potential rival. A little bad advice, discreetly given, has halted or slowed many a career." ¶ "Have money. Birth, marriage or fraud are the three most suitable sources...