Fraud
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United Press International | (2008) | MUSEUM DIRECTOR CHARGED IN TITANIC THEFT The former head of a Virginia maritime museum has been charged with selling off items from its Titanic collection and other memorabilia.Lester Weber, onetime director of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, was charged along with his wife with 26 counts of theft, fraud and failure to file tax returns.... | 22nd February 2008 | ||
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The Virginian-Pilot | (2008) | MARINERS' MUSEUM ARCHIVIST PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGES RELATED TO ARTIFACTS THEFT A former archivist with The Mariners' Museum in Newport News pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felonies related to the theft and sale of museum property on eBay.Lester F. Weber, 46, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to mail fraud, theft and filing a false tax return. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 7.... | 11th June 2008 | ||
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New York Times | (2009) | FIGHT FOR ASTOR ESTATE MIRRORS BATTLE 50 YEARS AGO Don Hogan Charles[Photo] Brooke Astor in 1996 with a portrait of her husband Vincent, who died in 1959. [Photo] Vincent Astor around 1910. His will was contested by his half brother, who blamed Mrs. Astor's influence. ... | 26th April 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1911) | CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -... | 26th May 1911 | |||


