Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Brother Ralph Capone, awaiting sentence for his income tax fraud, was charged by the U. S. with conducting an airplane liquor smuggling racket which had brought in $1,400,000 worth of contraband from Canada...
...opposite Union Station. U. S. rent: $120,000 per year. Property values appraised by the U. S. court: $317,000. Bonds sold by Kulp on the property: $1,150,000. In March 1928, the Federal Grand Jury at St. Paul expressed its opinion that the lease was "tainted with fraud and corruption." Rent payments thereupon ceased, pending action by the Department of Justice. Nothing has happened in two years...
...blame him for any wrongdoing. But it was Republican Postmaster General Will Hays who signed the first lease in 1922, Republican Postmaster General Harry Stewart New who renewed it in 1925. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown was accused of being very slack and indifferent to extirpating the alleged fraud...
...Coolidge landslide of 1924 he defeated Senator Magnus Johnson, stentorian Farmer-Laborite for a Senate seat. Johnson lifted his enormous voice to charge that Schall had been elected by fraud, that 'leggers had financed his campaign. The Senate investigated, found Schall elected. He proclaimed: ''Enemies referred to me as a damned blind bastard, not because I am blind but because my conscience sees. . . . Since I was a little boy I have earned my own living. I am a self-made man. It may be a poor...
...which charged that in common with all other diamond companies it had agreed to sell only to the Syndicate, that because of newly discovered fields the Syndicate had so lowered the price paid United Diamonds that the company was ruined. Included among the accusations was a charge of fraud. Settlement of the suit announced last month from the King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud did exist. It could not cheer Solomon Joel to believe...