Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., and fled to Brazil, Gilbert admitted to writing $1,953,000 in unauthorized company checks in a futile effort to meet margin calls on his stock in Bruce and Chicago's Celotex Corp. Fortnight ago. a federal grand jury charged fraud and ticked off 15 counts that, if proved, could put Gilbert in jail for 74 years. The same day the Internal Revenue Service filed tax liens of $3,464,472 against Eddy and estranged wife Rhoda...
...Crying Fraud. On nationwide TV, Diefenbaker insisted that the crisis had just blown up "in very recent days." But his measures were forced by the fact that gold and dollar reserves had dwindled almost $400 million in the previous three weeks, and a total of nearly $1 billion in the past six months. Canadian skeptics looked at the long list of specific imported items on which graduated surcharges were scheduled to be collected, and detected signs of prior planning...
...props for the plea of Attorney John Cofer, who argued that the reams of unfavorable publicity about his client made a fair hearing impossible. Unmoved, the grand jury handed down a new indictment against Estes, which raised the total number of his pending charges to 16 counts of mail fraud, twelve counts of illegally transporting securities in interstate commerce, and one count of conspiracy in faking the existence of scores of fictitious anhydrous ammonia tanks. Other developments in the Estes scandal...
Appropriately attired in grey, Dave Beck, 68, looked downcast as he surrendered to U.S. marshals in Seattle for the start of two concurrent five-year federal prison terms for tax fraud. But there was still a touch of the old bravado in the onetime boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As he boarded an 84-ft. launch near Tacoma that took him four miles across Puget Sound to McNeil Island Penitentiary, he called: "Remember MacArthur, boys! I'll be back." When the turnipy teamster does return, he will face 15 more years for embezzlement of his union...
...still unsure just how much Eddy Gilbert's checks actually added up to, Bruce officials prepared to start civil suit against him for recovery of the money (Chairman Edwin Bruce stepped back in as president of the company). Both the SEC and the New York County Fraud Bureau were investigating the tattered Gilbert empire to see whether Gilbert's manipulations added up to a criminal offense...