defalcation
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Last month a jury pronounced Treasurer Baldwin guilty of perjury by falsifying bank statements to cover up the defalcation.
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They decided that they had to share a collective responsibility for not having discovered the defalcation earlier.
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With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State's Attorney Bloomer dug deeper into the defalcation.
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When the Attorney General had asked the chief of his criminal division to prosecute a Department of Justice employe for a $2,000 defalcation it was Mr. Malloy's turn to balk.
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It will not do to attribute this defalcation to the acts of the late government, since the Whigs were not only the cordial supporters of these measures, but were ready to have taken the initiative.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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