The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-20

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 1 himself employ, with consent of the Mayor, additional counsel in behalf of said city only if, in his opinion, the interests of sad city required such additional counsel; and there after, from year to year, during said period, the said Hayes and the said Leary did employ 8 large group of lawyers chiefly for lobbying pur- poses, and upon such terms and conditions as the said Hayes and the said Leary desired, and at an ex- pense to the city during said period of sum in excess of Three Hun dred Thousand ($30O,000) Dollars. The payments to lawyers so em- ployed, as aforesaid, were made by means of checks issued from time to time in form and manner aforesaid, and unnumbered when issued, and not issued in regular course by the City Clerk, signed by said Daniel J. Leary, payable at the Citizens and Manufacturers Bank of Waterbury, and exchanged in most instances for currency in the banking rooms of the said Waterbury Trust Com pany by said Olsen, treasTer's checks in some instances having been issued by said Olsen to conceal said payments. None of said pay ments was ever approved by said Board of Finance of said city as re- quired by its charter, and, upon or der of the said Hayes, Leary, Borg naes, Kelly and Dunn, said payments were withehld from said warrants payable register sheets until after said sheets had been signed by members of said Board of Finance, giving the appearance of the ap- proval of said payments on the part of said Board of Finance, and thereby concealing said payments from said Board of Finance and from the citizens and taxpayers of said city, and all for the purpose of concealing the unlawful and fraud ulent methods and transactions of said Hayes, Leary, Kelly and Dunn and for the purpose of concealing the formation and existence of said conspiracy. -. 2. Amount Unknown
 And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, between the 1st day of January, 1880 and the 1St day of January, 1888. the said O'Connor did receive by means of checks 1s- sued and paid in the form and man. ner hereinbefore described, large sums of money from said city, the exact amount of which is to said attorney unknown, to be disbursed by him from a petty cash account kept in the office of said Corporation Counsel, and did make expenditures therefrom from time to time for which he has never accounted to said city; and the said OConnor did systematically destroy all records of such expenditures thereby conceal ing said expenditures from the Board of Finance and from the citi- zens and taxpayers of said city.
 And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit. between the 1st day of January, 1881 and the 3d day of January, 1898, said Thomas J. Fleming, then and there being the Superintendent of Public Works of said city of Waterbury, an appointee of said Hayes, did rent trucks and equipment and did make purchases in behalf of said City of Waterbury in excess of the requirements of said City of Waterbury, and did further authorize payments for trucks and equipment to, owners and vendors of equipment of large amounts Of money belonging to the City of Wa terbury without making inquiry as to the amount of work performed or services rendered or the value of equipment purchased; and did fur ther approve vouchers and bills pre- pared in the office of the said Dan- iel J. Leary without examination Of said vouchers and bills to determine the correctness of the amount stated therein; and further upon the order of the said Hayes, Leary and Kelly did place employees upon the payroll of said city without inquiry as to the fitness of such employees or the necessity of their employment; and further, between the 5th day of Oc- tober, 1897 and the date of this in- formation, the said Fleming, for the purpose of concealing said unlawful and fraudulent transactions and the unlawful and fraudulent transac- tions of himself and the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly and Dunn, did order the destruction by the burning of all records, books, duplicate vouch- CTS, daily time sheets and payroll sheets of the said City of Waterbury then in his custody at the City Yards; and pursuant to said in structions, on or about the 20th day of January, 1888, said books, vouch- CTS, daily time sheets and payroll sheets were destroyed by burning. thereby concealing the unlawful and fraudulent payments made as afore- said to truck and equipment owners and thereby concealing the unlawful and fraudulent payments made to employees placed upon the payroll of said city at the direction of said Hayes and Lcary as aforesaid, and thereby concealing the unlawful ex- penditures of said Department of Public Works from said Board of Finance and from the citizens and taxpayers of said city.
 And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, the said Hayes, Leary, Kelly, Olsen, Borgnaes and Dunn did devise, arrange consent to and authorize the exchange for currency of checks issued by said city for payments made as aforesaid to creditors and p,rported creditors of said city by said Olsen in the bank ing rooms of said Waterbury Trust Company of which the said Olsen was then and there an officer, there- by concealing the payments by said ] City of Waterbury to said creditors
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