Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five Government witnesses appeared and put it up to the jury: Did it not appear that Citizen Mellon had claimed a fake loss of $5,678,000 on Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock and of $402,000 on Western Public Service Co.? That his gross income was $9,213,000 and not $6,759,000 as reported? That his net income was $7,767,000 instead of $5,553,000? That he should have paid an income tax of $1,364,000 instead of $648,000? That he had "unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, feloniously and fraudulently attempted to defeat and evade...
Next morning the Pittsburgh grand jury filed into the court room and handed to the judge the Government's charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...
...General Cummings' new policy of asking criminal indictments against all citizens, big and little, whose tax calculations disagree with those of the Government's tax auditors. Two months prior, amid a great blare of headlines, "General"' Cummings had announced that he would attempt to secure Mr. Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made two tart statements, one charging "politics of the crudest sort...
While Attorney General Cummings was not "disposed to challenge" the collapse of his prize case, he could not restrain a political instinct to take one parting crack at Mr. Mellon. Ignoring the fact that he had carried the tax charges into the headlines first, Mr. Cummings declared: "Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon...
Senator Dickinson: I hold no brief for Mr. Mellon, but I do object to this sort of persecution. It makes a criminal proceeding out of what the law intends to be a civil...