Word: swindler
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...Swindler Wright's suicide took place in a consultation room in the Law Courts, where he was having a consultation with his Counsel after the verdict. London, England...
...polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that soon after he began practicing he was earning the fashionable income of ?30.000 per year. "Figures spoke to him like poetry to another man," commented a fascinated observer after Rufus Isaacs' sensational prosecution of England's notorious swindler, Whitaker Wright...
...sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel Isaacs saw Wright's hand go to his mouth. He sprang forward, but it was too late. Wright...
Last week Publisher Lorimer and Reporter Marcosson may have regretted their coup. For in one of the most smashing statements ever made by a firm of auditors, Ivar Kreuger was last week pronounced a crook, a swindler, a falsifier of books...
...Penitentiary for conspiracy and using the mails to defraud. Worthless was not only $1,250,000 worth of stock in Automotive Royalties Corp. but also that of two previous companies Mr. Parker had formed. Many a mulcted clergyman sadly agreed when Judge Woolsey called him "an enemy to society." Swindler Parker shrugged...