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Carl Adolphus Gottlieb Adae (1839-1915) —
also known as Carl A. G. Adae —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Möckmühl, Germany,
June
9, 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Vice-Consul
for Germany in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1871-77; president of the C. F. Adae & Co. bank;
after the bank became insolvent in December 1878, he was arrested
and charged
with bank fraud, that is, accepting deposits knowing that the
bank was about to fail; the case was referred to the grand jury, but
no indictments resulted; insurance
agent.
German
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
26, 1915 (age 75 years, 231
days).
Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) —
also known as Charles H. Voorhis —
of New Jersey.
Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), Bergen
County, N.J., March
13, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1879-81.
Indicted
in 1881 for bank fraud over his actions as president of two
banks, which later became insolvent; tried
and found not guilty.
Fearing oncoming total blindness, he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his office
at the Davidson Building, Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., April
15, 1896 (age 63 years, 33
days).
Original interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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Martin Reinberg (b. 1852) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Tuckum, Russia (now Tukums, Latvia),
June
20, 1852.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Vice Consul in Guayaquil, 1883-84; U.S. Vice Consul General in Guayaquil, 1884-1902; founded an export
and banking
company in Guayaquil, Martin Reinberg & Company; in 1901, the company
became bankrupt, with debts over one million dollars; following an
investigation, his arrest was
ordered by Ecuadorian authorities, who suspected him of embezzlement
or bank fraud; removed
from his consular post.
Jewish.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederic Duncan MacMaster —
also known as Frederic MacMaster —
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Theodore
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider" regiment; U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1905-06; dismissed
from his consular position in 1906 over multiple instances of misconduct,
including the assault
of police officers in a bar-room; en route to the U.S., he stopped in
Nice, France, and obtained a bank loan by pretending to be
U.S. Consul Harold
S. Van Buren.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Hall Adams (1853-1938) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
1853.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1885-94; Consul-General
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1894-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Boston,
Mass., 1899-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1905-07; in May 1909, he and another lawyer were charged
with conspiring to obtain unclaimed deposits at Suffolk
Savings Bank by inventing fictitious heirs; pleaded not guilty.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1938 (age 85 years, 121
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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James Kemp Doughton Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank fraud in 1928; tried
and acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March
17, 1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Luke Lea (1879-1945) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
12, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, after
the war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in an unauthorized
attempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; they illegally
entered the Netherlands (which was neutral
territory) using forged
passports; he and the others were reprimanded
by the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank and
Trust, he and others were indicted
in 1931 for bank fraud; convicted
on three counts; sentenced to prison,
served two years before being paroled; ultimately pardoned
in 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, in Vanderbilt University Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
18, 1945 (age 66 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote
fraud (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the
expectation that Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud over his transfer of $90,000 in city
funds to the Long Beach Trust Company, which subsequently closed; the
indictment was dismissed in February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil
producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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John L. Lotsch (1881-1967) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born February
15, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1928.
Arrested
and indicted
in 1935 on federal charges
of taking
bribes while serving as a special master overseeing a patent
case; the case was dismissed in 1936, but he was immediately reindicted
on an extortion
charge;
that indictment was thrown out by the Court of Appeals. Charged
in 1938, with other officials of a defunct Brooklyn bank, with
conspiracy to violate federal banking laws by accepting fees
for granting loans; tried
and convicted
on three counts; sentenced
to serve one year in jail;
also disbarred.
Pleaded
guilty in 1939 to charges
that he bribed
federal judge Martin
T. Manton, and testified at the judge's bribery trial.
Died in 1967
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Melba Till Allen (1933-1989) —
also known as Melba Till —
of Hope Hull, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Grady, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Marbury, Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Friendship Community, Butler
County, Ala., March 3,
1933.
Democrat. Alabama
state auditor, 1967-75; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1972; Alabama
state treasurer, 1975-78; Convicted
in 1978 of using her position as state treasurer to obtain bank
loans to build a theme park, and for failing
to disclose her personal finances; she denied any wrongdoing; sentenced
to six years in jail,
but spent most of her sentence working as a bookkeeper in a
retirement home.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star.
Died, of cancer,
in Baptist Medical
Center, Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., October
20, 1989 (age 56 years, 231
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Samuel Ben Till and Gertrude (Johnson) Till; married, December
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R. Eugene Holley (c.1926-2000) —
of Georgia.
Born about 1926.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1965-77.
In 1980, he was convicted
of bank fraud and sentenced
to ten years in prison
(later reduced to three years); served 16 months.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died soon afterward, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 19,
2000 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Westover
Memorial Park, Augusta, Ga.
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Robert Bernerd Anderson (1910-1989) —
also known as Robert B. Anderson —
of Texas.
Born in Burleson, Johnson
County, Tex., June 4,
1910.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1932; Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1955; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Pleaded
guilty in 1987 to charges
of evading
taxes by illegally operating an offshore bank; sentenced
to jail, house
arrest, and probation;
disbarred
in 1988.
Died, of complications from surgery on cancer
of the esophagus, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
14, 1989 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Rosehill Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Marvin Leon Warner (1919-2002) —
also known as Marvin L. Warner —
of Ohio.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., 1919.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1977-79.
One of 13 part-owners of the New York Yankees baseball
team in 1973-75, and was also part owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and Birmingham Stallions football
teams. Horses he owned or bred competed in the Kentucky Derby. His
first wife later married Albert Sabin, inventor of the oral polio
vaccine. Head of the Cincinnati-based Home State Savings Bank when it
collapsed in 1985, touching off a run on other Ohio banks. Convicted
on fraud charges in 1987 and served 28 months in prison.
Also charged
in federal court, but acquitted.
On a visit to witness a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis,
suffered a heart
attack and died, at Cape Canaveral, Brevard
County, Fla., April 8,
2002 (age about 82
years).
Interment at Lakeside
Cemetery, Miami, Fla.
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Jerry Cosentino (c.1932-1997) —
of Palos Heights, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1932.
Democrat. Illinois
state treasurer, 1979-83, 1987-91; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1980;
candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1982, 1990.
Pleaded
guilty to bank fraud in April 1992; fined
$5,000, and sentenced
to nine months home
confinement.
Died of a heart
attack, in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., April 3,
1997 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Christopher Perkins (b. 1954) —
also known as Carl C. Perkins; Chris
Perkins —
of Leburn, Knott
County, Ky.
Born in Washington,
D.C., August
6, 1954.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1981-84; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1985-93; pleaded
guilty in 1994 to bank fraud in connection with the House
banking scandal;
he wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000 (covered by the House
bank) and made false statements to obtain loans from
commercial banks; also pleaded
guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal
Election Commission and false financial
disclosure reports; sentenced
to 21 months in prison;
in March 2000, pleaded
guilty to criminal
contempt of court for lying to a federal probation officer about
his income; minister.
Baptist;
later Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mary Rose Oakar (b. 1940) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ohio, March 5,
1940.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1977-93; defeated, 1992;
member, Rules Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
Female.
She and two nephews were indicted
in 1995 over a scheme to evade campaign
finance limits and put money into her campaign under the names of
fake donors; she was also charged
with obtaining money through bad checks on the House bank;
pleaded not guilty to seven felonies, and challenged the validity of
the charges; in 1998, pleaded
guilty to two misdemeanor campaign
finance violations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Jack Harvard (b. 1946) —
of Plano, Collin
County, Tex.
Born October
23, 1946.
Republican. Banker; mayor of
Plano, Tex., 1982-90; candidate for Texas
state senate 2nd District, 1992.
Indicted
in August 1995, along with David
B. McCall, Jr. and others, on federal bank fraud charges
relating to $25 million in loans; pleaded
guilty in September 1996 to one count of providing
false information on one loan; sentenced to three years in prison.
Still living as of 1996.
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John Fife Symington III (b. 1945) —
also known as Fife Symington III —
of Arizona.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
12, 1945.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War; Governor of
Arizona, 1991-97; resigned 1997.
Episcopalian.
Convicted
on seven counts of bank fraud in federal court, September 3,
1997; forced to
resign as governor; sentenced
to prison
and fined in
February 1998; his conviction was overturned on appeal in June 1999;
pardoned
by President Bill Clinton in 2001.
Still living as of 2017.
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Melvin Jay Reynolds (b. 1952) —
also known as Mel Reynolds —
of Illinois.
Born in Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss., January
8, 1952.
Democrat. University
professor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1993-95; defeated in
primary, 1988, 1990; resigned 1995.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
in 1995 on sexual
misconduct and obstruction
of justice charges and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Convicted
in federal court in 1997 of 15 counts of bank fraud, wire
fraud, and lying to the Federal
Election Commission; sentenced
to 78 more months in prison.
Still living as of 2014.
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Richard Joyner Holland Sr. (1925-2000) —
also known as Richard J. Holland, Sr. —
of Windsor, Isle of
Wight County, Va.
Born in Suffolk,
Va., August
12, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; banker;
member of Virginia
state senate 15th District, 1980-2000; died in office 2000.
Congregationalist.
Acquitted of drunk
driving
in 1986, but convicted
of reckless
driving and refusal to
take a breath test; indicted
in federal court for 31 felony counts of bank fraud; charges
were dismissed in April 1998, and the prosecution ruled to be
vexatious; he and his son received a $570,000 reimbursement for legal
fees.
Died in Windsor, Isle of
Wight County, Va., April
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 248
days).
Interment at Windsor
Cemetery, Windsor, Va.
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Charles Tyrone Courtney (b. 1952) —
also known as Ty Courtney —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., January
4, 1952.
Lawyer;
municipal judge in South Carolina, 1981-82; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1991-2000.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jaycees;
Lions.
Tried
and convicted
in June 2000 on federal charges
of bank fraud, mail fraud, and making false
statements in a loan application.
Still living as of 2000.
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Fenton L. Bland Jr. (b. 1962) —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., March 7,
1962.
Democrat. Mortician;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates 63rd District, 2002-05; resigned 2005;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
2004;
pleaded
guilty, January 26, 2005 to one count of conspiracy to commit
bank fraud; sentenced
in April to 57 months in prison
and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution;
surrendered
his funeral director's license rather than contest charges of ethical
violations.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Still living as of 2006.
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