MUNICIPAL CLEAN-UP
AMERICAN CITY BOSS SENT TO GAOL INCOME TAX EVASIONS. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 22. A case approaching that of Hines, the Tammary leader, in significance, ended today when Tom Pendergast, political overlord of Kansas City, a machine-ridden municipal .government, was sentenced to fifteen months in a Federal prison for evading 443.000 dollars of income tax payments. He was fined ten thousand dollars. Sensational evidence adduced during the trial showed that Pendergast had wagered two million dollars on horse races in 1935, losing 600,000. He had an enormous income from a diver-, sity of rackets, including levies on insurance business.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 6
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110MUNICIPAL CLEAN-UP Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 6
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