ALLEGED FRAUD
U.S. OFFICIALS INDICTED MILLIONS INVOLVED SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES (Australian and N.Z. Cabte Association NEW YORK, Sept. 7.
The first trial of a former member of Cabinet in the history of the United States begins to-morrow morning in the Federal Court, when ex-Attorney-General Dougherty appears with Colonel Miller, formerly the alien property custodian, to answer an indictment charging them with defrauding the Government of their
'"unbiassed and unprejudiced service's," through sharing with others 391,000 dollars and bonds, and a cheque for 50,000 dollars, allegedly in return for arranging the recovery bv Soeiefs Suisse Pour Valuers d rt Metau of 7.000,000 dollars in assets of the American Metal Co.. impounded during the war as alien property. Dougherty and Miller pleaded not guilty upon arraignment last year.
The trial will be attended by sensational disclosures, concerning the administration of property taken from the Germans upon the United States declaration of war.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 7
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