EVASION OF TAXES
BIG AMERICAN SUIT. CHARGES AGAINST OFFICIALS. (Received I. 10-10 a.m.) Washington, Feb. 27. Mr. Andrew Mellon, Ambassador to Great Britain, and a former Secretary to the Treasury, and two former officials of the Imperial Revenue Bureau are named as defendants in a 220 million dollar suit charging them with alleged connivance with officers of foreign steamship companies to evade just income taxes. It is alleged that Mr Mellon not only failed to collect 100 million dollars in delinquent taxes from foreign steamship interests, but placed the Government in such a position that it was compelled to refund the sum of 10 million dollars to the companies. The identity of the companies is cot disclosed, but persons named with Mr Mellon are Mr David Blair, one-time Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and Ur Alexander Gregg, a former actingcounsel to the Bureau. The suit was filed in the Supremo Court by Mr David Alson, who recently resigned his position as investigator for the Senate Stock Market Inquiry Committee,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 67, 1 March 1933, Page 5
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