Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system was broadened to make anyone who had ever served in the legislature eligible for a pension based on his highest salary in public office. No. 1 beneficiary: Democrat James M. Curley, now 77, former governor, former mayor of Boston, and ex-convict (five months for mail fraud). Curley, who served in the state legislature in 1902-03, is eligible for a $1,000-monthly pension under the new law. ¶Retroactive payments, amounting to thousands of dollars, will go to statehouse employees, some earning as much as $13,000 a year, for carfare and lunches. ¶Some...
...Democrats first tried to pooh-pooh the whole affair. Dever, who keynoted the Democratic Convention, refused to answer Herter, denied it was a sneak bill, said both parties had voted for it, charged that the Republican demand for a special session was "a fraud upon the public...
...Franklin Roosevelt's Justice Department, he made Soapy his executive assistant. Then Murphy sent Soapy into Michigan so the home folks could see him. Soapy was appointed as a prosecutor in Murphy's drive to get something on Republican Boss Frank McKay. McKay was indicted for fraud, but despite Murphy's lawyers-including Soapy-McKay was acquitted...
...Within a few days," the judge related, "the jury returned seven indictments for criminal tax fraud." Then, to his consternation, the jury stopped dead in its tracks and issued an almost unprecedented "partial report," which stated that it had been unable to find any signs that "influence lawyers" had successfully quashed tax-fraud cases. Judge Moore indignantly rejected the report and put the grand jury back to work. Then he tried to find out who had been responsible for the whitewash report. In last week's deposition he pointed his judicial finger directly at Ellis Slack, 51, then...
...Professor André Gros argued for France that the treaty was an archaic document under which the U.S. was trying to build a "quasi-protectorate" of its own in Morocco. The American businessmen in Morocco, Lawyer Gros said, were engaged in privileged import and money-exchange activities "based on fraud," and could not be checked by local laws...