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...turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted...
...conscience, but they were nothing compared to the corruption revealed in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As the man who had presided over one of the messiest messes in Washington history, Internal Revenue Commissioner George Schoeneman was allowed to resign because of "ill health." Former BIR Commissioner Joseph Nunan Jr., convicted of evading $91,000 in income taxes for 1946-50, sentenced to five years in prison, wailed that despite his job, he simply had not been much of a tax expert. BIR Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant resigned angrily after Witness Abraham Teitelbaum said he had been told Oliphant...
...Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joseph D. Nunan Jr. settled a long-overdue bill the hard way. Nunan, onetime Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1944-47), listened in silence as Federal Judge Walter Bruchhausen sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary and fined him $15,000 for evading $91,086 in income taxes. In passing sentence-one of the stiffest ever handed down for tax evasion-Judge Bruchhausen took official cognizance of Joe Nunan's old position as top tax collector of the land. "The court does not overlook the fact that the defendant...
...Last week Mrs. Nunan inherited a one-third interest in the $1,000,000 estate of a cousin...
Still pending is the Government's per jury case against Nunan, charging that he lied to the grand jury that indicted him for evasion after he resigned as the nation's No. 1 tax collector. Since Nu nan's heyday in Washington, 213 other Internal Revenue employees and friends have been indicted, and more than 100 have been convicted of crimes ranging from perjury to bribery. Among the key cases...