Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prosecutor Maurice Milligan declared that Tom Pendergast since 1927 had evaded taxes on $1,240,000, did not ask utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...
...days later, Bird pleaded guilty to hocking $160,000 worth of the railroad's bonds with four banks as collateral for personal loans. Flushed, but holding his handsome head high, Mr. Bird heard the prosecutor accuse him of living beyond his means, speculating in the market, and having a "hunger" for directorships. Then Bird's lawyer, George H. Cohen, rose to tell the story behind the crime. His story...
...mountain town of Leninsk-Kuznetski three ambitious agents of the NKVD (Commissariat for Home Affairs) and the acting city prosecutor, unable to fabricate cases against adult victims, took to arresting children for "Fascist terroristic activities." Scores were thrown into bedless, crawling cells along with common criminals and political prisoners. In their reports the purgers concealed the children's ages, passed them off as grown youths. Some of the child victims were shipped off to prisons in other cities, others were kept in Leninsk-Kuznetski and questioned night after night...
Last week the three agents and the prosecutor were sent to jail themselves for from five to ten years. The released children were asked whether they even knew what Fascism was. "We have seen Fascists in the movies," they confessed. "They go about in white caps...
Quiet, matter-of-fact, smiling was Prosecutor Dewey as he rose to sum up the State's case before the blue-ribbon jury. Although Tom Dewey's first attempt at pinning Jimmy Hines had ended in a mistrial and given the defense a complete preview of his case, although his star witness. Numbers Racketeer George Weinberg, had committed suicide before he could be brought back to the stand, Tammanyman Hines and his counsel had seemed unable to press their advantage. Nevertheless, even confident Tom Dewey was pleasantly surprised when the jury returned less than seven hours after...