Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amusement park just across the Hudson from New York complained that rain-either by Howell or nature--was hurting business. Howell telegraphed the park management, rejecting the offer saying it "would be a fraud...
...City henchmen and other good Democrats, including the late Charlie Binaggio, were quick to oblige, but they were a little clumsy about it. They purged Roger Slaughter in the primaries, all right, but they let a Republican win the seat in the finals. And, after the election, 118 vote-fraud indictments were returned against Democratic primary workers. (Two were convicted, 115 indictments were dismissed, and the most damaging evidence was stolen from an election board safe...
...promoters, who had perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some ?30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house...
...week, the announcement came that the President had granted him a "full and unconditional" pardon of two convictions for which he had served jail time. The pardon covered convictions for 1) fraudulently taking a letter-carrier examination for a friend in 1903 (60 days in jail), and 2) mail fraud in mulcting $60,000 from clients on the promise of getting them Government contracts (a six-to 18-month sentence which Harry Truman commuted to five months...
...when Harry Truman ordered the purge of Representative Roger Slaughter, Binaggio was able to deliver the votes in good oldtime style. There was some unpleasantness when a grand jury indicted 67 Binaggio helpers for vote fraud, but that was taken care of: someone blew open the election board's safe and made off with the incriminating poll books...