60-CENT LUNCH
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE'S TAX
Joseph Schenck, the . multi-million-aire moving picture executive, has been sentenced by the Federal Court to three years' imprisonment and fined 20,000 dollars for income tax evasion. A co-defendant, Joseph Moskowitz, Schenck's eastern representative, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and fined 10,000 dollars.
Schenck's trial produced some remarkable witnesses. The Government presented evidence showing that Schenck deducted household expenses, gambling debts, and money spent on pleasure parties and yacht repairs. One deduction was 60 cents, the cost of a lunch for Doris T. Duke, the world's richest girl. Another was 25 dollars for flowers for Shirley Temple.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 8
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10160-CENT LUNCH Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 8
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