JEWEL SMUGGLING
GEORGE BURNS SENTENCED. HEAVY FINE IMPOSED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 31. George Burns received a suspended sentence of a year and a day and was fined 1.700 dollars for smuggling 4,885 dollars worth of jewellery, the total duty on which would not have exceeded a thousand dollars.
A cablegram from New York on December 12 stated: — George Burns, of the film and radio team of Burns and Allen, pleaded guilty in a Federal Court today to nine charges of smuggling 4885 dollars’ worth of diamond-studded jewellery. The maximum penalty on all counts would be 18 years’ imprisonment and a 45,000 dollars’ fine, but it is believed that he will only be fined. Other prominent cinema people are expected to be involved in the smuggling investigation, which began a fortnight ago. Burns made a statement that he was not aware that the duty had not been paid on the jewellery and that he considered the offence merely a technicality, involving no moral guilt on his part.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1939, Page 6
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