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...first was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the ubiquitous influence peddler who has popped up in half a dozen tax probes. The black-marketeering and tax fraud charges were dropped a few months after Grunewald intervened. By now, Senator Bridges was also in the act. Soon afterward, the lien on Klein's assets was eased to allow him to resume doing business...
...investment into a $5,000,000 profit, through a brisk import business in Canadian whisky. His troubles began in 1946 when the Government charged him with black-markeeering and tax fraud. In 1948, the BIR, afraid that he would skip the country, slapped a $7,000,000 tax lien on his assets...
...Washington, Madame Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., paid an income-tax lien claim of $1,278 on some overlooked stocks & bonds income. It was not the money but the implication that bothered her, she said: "It was less than what a dress costs. But now with all the tax scandals . . . people think it must have been over a hundred thousand dollars...
...lien" on a 51% interest in the National Petroleum Co. of Egypt...
Brahmachari . . . is perhaps familiar with English literature, or with someone who knows the writings of Oliver Goldsmith. The story is told in the 18th letter of Lien Chi Altangi, Goldsmith's oriental nom de plume for his series of satirical attacks on English customs, Citizen of the World...