Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served Captain Boy-Ed, German spy, for $1,000 per week. In 1917 he was tried for murdering a client, Mrs. Maude C. King; was acquitted. When in 1921 Burns became chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, Means was hired there also, ostensibly for War fraud investigations, but really to block them. Discharged, he supplied the Senate investigating committee with much material with which to drive Harry Micajah Daugherty out of the Cabinet as Attorney General. About Washington Means had a shoddy, shifty reputation which was confirmed when he was convicted of a huge conspiracy against...
Other members included Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime Alien Property Custodian, convicted for fraud in the American Metals case; Col. Thomas B. Felder, deceased; Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. Elizabeth Beswick, mother of 18 children, thief, was described as "a lurking menace to society," sentenced to five years in jail for fraud...
...convict No. 23,118 changed back to Frederick Albert Cook. Attorney General Mitchell had approved his parole. Its prime provision: Cook must hereafter write and speak nothing but the truth. The first $12,000 he makes, the U.S. will take as the fine he still owes for his oil fraud...
Sued. George J. Gillespie, Sr., president of New York City's Board of Water Supply; by Mrs. Frances Marion Brandon, New York City's Assistant Corporation Counsel; for $574,165; for breach of promise (marriage), fraud. Mrs. Brandon testified that, under his religio-erotic influence, she had turned clients over to Mr. Gillespie, that he had kept $74,165 in fees...