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AMERICAN OIL LEASES BIG TRIAL OPENED. Australian and N 7,. Cable As^wiaHon. WASHINGTON, November 22. The first criminal case resulting from the disclosures during the Senate Investigating Committee’s sitting in 1923 and 1924 has opened with the trial of the former Secretary of the Interior, A. B. Fall, aricl Edward Doheny, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government. The prosecution claims that a 100,000,000 dollars lease of the Elk Hills Naval Reserve in California, granted in 1922, was influenced by the alleged bribe of 100,000 dollars given to Fall by Doheny. Defendants face a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment in the Federal Prison, and fines of 10,000 dollars. The selection of a jury is now proceeding, and is likely to take several days, while the trial is expected to last at least a month, and perhaps several. An indictment was returned eighteen months ago, being one of five issued against the principals involved in the oil scandals which wero divulged by the Senate Committee.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 3
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168BRIBERY ALLEGED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 3
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