Word: garssons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans to begin the Eightieth Congress with a prayer and end it with a probe. Scarcely a day of the session passed that did not witness exploratory jabs into some phase of the past or present activities of the Democratic administration. The pertinent facts of the May-Garsson scandal were public knowledge by the time that the GOP took up the reins of Congress; but Republicans can hog most of the credit for the smear "investigation" of David Lilienthal and the recent brief and abortive attempt to discredit the security measures of the Atomic Energy Commission. The grand finale...
Kentucky's old (72) ex-Congressman Andy May stood up in a Washington federal court last week and proclaimed: "I have never tasted liquor, wine or beer . . . if I go to jail my grandchildren will drop out of college." The two Garsson brothers appealed for mercy too. Henry Garsson made a speech; Murray Garsson wept softly. The Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry...
After one hour and 50 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Munitions-Makers Murray and Henry Garsson and ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to defraud the Government (TIME, July 15, 1946 et seq.). The maximum sentence for each count: a $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
Andy, by the Government's evidence, seemed to be adept at turning a penny occasionally out of his favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...
...Garssons had put more than $50,000 into Cumberland for lumber they never received. One former Garsson employee testified that he had been ordered to juggle the books to show orders and receipts for nonexistent lumber. The Government insisted that Cumberland was simply a blind to shield the fat bribes Andy May extracted from the Garssons...