Word: musicae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Musica-Coster had inflated the firm's assets by $21,025,658. Of this amount $2,869,483 was stolen from the firm. The rest had never existed to be stolen, was an incidental figment of the Coster speculation. Ex phony items: assets on Dec. 31, 1938 were $68,953,095; liabilities, $41,657,064; net worth...
Recovered to date: $235,000 (including $100,000 insurance policy on Musica-Coster's life). Proceeds from sale of his yacht Carolita...
Died. Julian F. Thompson, 50, playwright (The Warrior's Husband) and treasurer of McKesson & Robbins, who started the investigation that exposed President Coster as ex-Convict Musica; of influenza; in Manhattan...
...Federal grand jury last week ended three months of hearings by indicting nine men for criminal fraud in helping F. Donald Coster perpetrate his $18,000,000 swindle of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. The nine men were Coster-Musica's three brothers, two brothers-in-law, a vice president, two McKesson & Robbins directors and a shadowy character named Ben Simon who had known the inside story for 20 years and had lived on his knowledge...
...debark in the Canal Zone and return immediately if necessity demanded. Though Federal authorities said they wanted Judge Thomas and his books chiefly for the Manton investigation, they confessed their interest in a case from Judge Thomas' own court: the McKesson & Robbins receivership that exploded the notorious Coster-Musica drug scandal (TIME...