The Archive · 1938

Well-known Financier Sentenced for Fraud

Spiro Described as Head of Commercial Brigands

London, Sept. 9.

Mr. Stanley Grove Spiro, 45-year-old financier, was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude at the Old Bailey yesterday for false pretences and fraudulent conversion.

He pleaded guilty to nine of sixteen counts, and the amounts involve ed are stated to total about £55,000 The Recorder, Mr. Gerald Dodson, described Spiro as the head of a society of commercial brigands—Reuter.

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