Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income tax by $139,045. The Bureau of Internal Revenue revived its original charge, slapped on a 50% indemnity for fraud. Last week...
Miami, Fla., Feb. 4--Assistant District Attorney W. Sanders Gramling left for Jacksonville tonight to ask the Federal Grand Jury to indict three companions of Alvin Karpis and two men charged with harboring the Bremer kidnap suspect...
...March 19, et seq.). It was alleged that Mr. Mellon had cheated the Government out of $716,000 worth of income taxes in 1931 by fake stock transfers and bogus losses. Two months later the case was brought before a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh. The jury refused to indict its rich fellow-citizen...
...facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
Next morning the Pittsburgh grand jury filed into the court room and handed to the judge the Government's charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...