Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also served five terms in the United States House of Representatives and one term as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1947, while a member of Congress, he served a term of five months in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecti-cut for mail fraud...
...candidates in its mayoralty race. The two principles are present Mayor John B. Hynes, who has been backed since his first election two years ago by many Boston reform groups, and former Mayor James Michael Curley, who served a term in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, for mail fraud...
...been suggested [by Russia] that the treaty ought to deny to Japan 'the inherent right of collective self-defense' and permit only a token right of 'individual self-defense.' That kind of a peace, in this present kind of a world, would be a fraud...
After the second bankruptcy, B. & O. General Solicitor Cassius Clay (an ex-RFC lawyer), resigned in disgust, was joined by another B. & O. lawyer. Said 'lay after he quit: the loans were a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up" and a "fraud." The bankruptcy, said the Tobey report, did more than postpone payment of the loan. It enabled the railroad to convert the notes held by RFC into non-salable bonds, hence left RFC with a frozen loan rather than a live claim on the B. & O.'s assets. Once converted, RFC's collateral Dehind its loans...
...could not explain a personal check he had written to pay some "Ted Smith" taxes. Last week the jury brought in its verdict: guilty. The sentence: five years in the penitentiary. (Bonney and his lawyer will soon go to trial on charges of conspiring to commit fraud...