Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Tax Appeals for $130,045 which he claimed he had overpaid on his 1931 tax return. In September the Board published its reply, in which was discerned the fine Connecticut hand of Homer Cummings. It revived the old tax evasion charge, added a 50% indemnity for fraud, this time demanded $3,075,103 in back taxes and penalties. It openly accused Mr. Mellon of using his knowledge of income tax machinery to defraud the Government whose servant he was. "It is quite clear," said old Mr. Mellon, "that in my case the Treasury is not so much interested...
...sales" of stock to its affiliated savings bank to avoid taxes. To those who felt the New Deal was deliberately persecuting old Mr. Mellon for political purposes, it was highly significant that Union Trust should be the first institution of its kind ever to be charged with tax evasion fraud...
...headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...
...scheme itself, it does not seem open to serious debate that at this point in the case the question of fraudulent character is clearly one for the jury." In nonjudicial terms, the Judge meant that Samuel Insull and his co-defendants might well be guilty of mail fraud unless the defense put up a good answer to the charges. Last week the defense buckled down to the task...
Chicago, Nov. 5--The cross-examination of Samuel Insull, Sr., in his $143,000,000 mail fraud trial ended today on a note of high-pressure salesmanship and the defense moved on to other witnesses intended to establish that collapse of the Insull empire was the result of conditions which affected business universally during the depression...