Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoffa was freed on appeal, but he had barely enough time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that one ended last week, after 90 days and 42,000 pages of testimony, Hoffa was nailed again on four counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in stir and $13,000 in fines when he is sentenced in the next few weeks...
Hoffa has been tried in federal courts six times-and has been convicted twice -in the last seven years, but none of the others has matched the complexity of the Chicago trial. Six co-defendants and Hoffa were accused, in a 53-page indictment, of mail and wire fraud, fraudulently borrowing $25 million from a Teamster pension fund and siphoning off $1,700,000 of that money for their own use. The money was used to help bail Hoffa out of a failing, mud-fouled retirement project called Sun Valley, near Florida's Cape Kennedy...
Gang-Busters. New York City Welfare Commissioner James R. Dumpson, 52, a Philadelphia-born Negro, claims that only 275 cases of fraud were unearthed in 1963. Once, he said, welfare workers could not tell one Negro child from another and all the kids in the neighborhood ran from house to house, a few steps ahead of the social worker, to pad the rolls. But now his department workers demand birth certificates and school records...
...B.F.G. last year purchased several companies left insolvent in the collapse of the Hugo Stinnes industrial empire (TIME, Oct. 18, 1963), is keeping them in operation until they can be resold. When the owner of a huge Nurnberg photographic mail-order house was arrested recently on suspicion of tax fraud, B.F.G. saved his company by putting up more than $2,000,000 to bail him out. By such ventures, the bank has preserved thousands of jobs, also reaped dividends of good will and new accounts in the German business community...
...forth. At New York's Practising Law Institute, cases in which a published and mailed notice suffices to get service in a civil suit, are summed up in MINISTER-Matrimonial actions, In rem property actions, Nonresidents, Incompetents and infants, Stockholders, Traveling residents, Extended statute of limitations and Resident fraud...