Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny for arranging the Elk Hills oil lease in 1922 while serving as Secretary of the Interior-Mrs. Fall posed and spoke for Fox Movietone News. The film contained "news" which had escaped or been rejected by the newspapers. Mrs. Fall declared: "The jury...
Heavily in debt last week was Albert Bacon Fall, bribe-taking Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both...
...year-old defendant was able to walk into court to hear himself sentenced by Justice William Hitz. The jury had recommended mercy. Justice Hitz said firmly: "Under normal physical conditions {this case} would warrant and require the imposition of the maximum penalty [fine: $300,000 (thrice the bribe); three years imprisonment ]. . . . Because of the recommendation of the jury for mercy I will impose upon Mr. Fall a fine of $100,000 and imprisonment for one year...
...jury tried Fall and Doheny on practically the same evidence for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. That jury acquitted them. This time the jury had to judge, independent of Doheny, Fall's intent in receiving this cash. It found his intent criminal, the cash a bribe...
...Criminal Code provides that the fine for bribery may be three times the amount of the bribe...