Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast, jailed for income tax fraud, was politi cal boss...
MOSCOW--Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens of the sensational 'Robinson-Rubens" passport fraud and espionage case tonight was believed to be under the surveillance of the Soviet N.K.V.D.--Secret police--possibly at some obscure health resort, after her release from Butyrskaya prison...
...free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote-fraud cases (TIME, April 11, 1938). Last week it was used successfully for the first time in its 69 years of existence to protect the freedom of the press...
...Federal grand jury last week ended three months of hearings by indicting nine men for criminal fraud in helping F. Donald Coster perpetrate his $18,000,000 swindle of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. The nine men were Coster-Musica's three brothers, two brothers-in-law, a vice president, two McKesson & Robbins directors and a shadowy character named Ben Simon who had known the inside story for 20 years and had lived on his knowledge...
...Commodity Exchange Administration had found that of the 48 accounts operating under the scheme 42 had a closed profit aggregating $18,253 but all 48 had a total unrealized loss of $45,218. The owners of the accounts had been told only of the profitable deals. Indignant denials of fraud followed CEA's setting of hearings for March...