CITY COUNCILLOR’S FRAUDS
NINE YEARS’ GAOL AND £IO,OOO FINE LONDON. Nov. 20. “Your crime is against the whole nation,” said Mr Justice Oliver at the Liverpool Assizes when he sentenced Charles Roland Clare, a city councillor, to nine years’ penal servitude and also fined him £IO,OOO for offences in connexion with war contracts and the petrol regulations. Clare is director of a firm which, among other irregularities, charged the Government for more men than it employed and also for more waggons than were used. By these means the firm made a profit of thousands of pounds.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23802, 23 November 1942, Page 6
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