ALLEGED TAX EVASION
Prominent Americans j v Involved MR. ANDREW MELLON INCLUDED Cases for Grand Juries Press Association.— *2opyr?ght. Washington. March 10. The Attorney-General (Mr. Cummings) to-night announced proceedings against the former Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador to Britain, Andrew Mellon, former Mayor Walker of New York, Thomas Lamont, a partner and the J. P. Morgan Company, and Thomas Sidle, a noted Cleveland lawyer and a partner of the former Secretary of War, Mr. Baker, for alleged , tax evasion. Mr. Cummings said the cases would soon be presented to the grand juries. The newly created tax division of the Department of Justice also announced that other cases of a similar nature were pending against other individuals. The case against Andrew Mellon, it is understood, has been under investigation for some time.
William Duffy was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for income tax evasion. He returned from supervision of the Carnera-Loughran boxing bout just in time to be sentenced.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 3, 10 March 1934, Page 5
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