The Archive · 1939

Sentences Deferred

Although the three brothers pleaded guilty today, sentences will be deferred until the investigation into McKesson and Robbins affairs are completed, it was understood.

The gigantic fraud, involving the loss of U.S.$18,000,000 in listed assets of the crude drug department of the firm, was bared in the middle of December following an order for the arrest of F. Donald Coster, or Philip Musica. The warrant wa issued after Federal authorities had obtained concrete evidence of Coster's double life, revealing him as a man known in their criminal files as Musica, a notorious swindler and smuggler.—United Press.

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