Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd that packed the small court room gasped with surprise when the Prosecutor demanded the death penalty for "military rebellion through cooperation with the Republic." They had thought that the mild Professor's efforts for peace would excuse his sins. Two days later the court announced its decision: imprisonment for 30 years, a sentence which later can be easily shortened or suspended...
...saddest men in the court room was little Felipe Abreu ("Goodfellow Philip") Buencamino, 53, whip of the Philippine Assembly, longtime confidant of President Quezon. Because he offered to cooperate in the bond redemption plan for an alleged $50,000, he was denounced by the Federal prosecutor as the "Judas of the Philippine Assembly." Leaving last December to face the SEC inquiry, he told loyal followers: "I wish to break a little confidence which the Chief Executive (Quezon) has told me. ... He said he . . . did not believe me guilty of the accusations laid at my door." Last week he was convicted...
Last January, when Frank Murphy was appointed No. i law enforcement officer of the U. S., Tom Dewey was already better known as New York County's Republican prosecutor of crooked Democrats. Tom Dewey convicted Tammany Hall's notorious Jimmy Hines...
...indictment shows that he is just a common thief," announced Prosecutor Dewey, abridging the principle of English and U. S. law that indictments prove nothing. The twelve counts alleged that Fritz Kuhn: 1) stole $8,907 collected at the Bund's February rally in Manhattan; 2) stole $4,424 collected to defend six Long Island Bundsters who were convicted of violating the State Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp...
...city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes, he informed a badgering prosecutor: "All I have now is a few dollars in cash...