Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director of vocational rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary...
Tenants and landlords disguised their happiness well. Some tenants and labor groups quickly condemned the formula, but most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...
...Fraud!" cried Charles Witkowski, a candidate for city commissioner on one of the six opposition tickets. A 210-lb. former tackle at Villanova, Witkowski lunged for the box, grabbed it. "I drew it fairly," shouted Clerk Rosengard. "I swear on my family." Other candidates dived in, fought to get a hand on the box to see what made it tick...
...actions were filed against Federal tax delinquents). The problem was, the case had to be airtight against the erring taxpayer; for one thing, judges and juries were apt to sympathize with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...