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Show BEAT GOVERNMENT " OUT OHtLIONS PRODUCERS OF OLEOMARGARINE HAVE BEEN PERSISTENT VIOLATORS VIO-LATORS OF THE LAW. Charge Made by Secretary McAdoo That Uncle Sam Is $27,000,000 Out of Pocket as Result of Evasion of Taxes. Washington. How violators of the oleomargarine law have defrauded the federal government out of at least $27,000,000 due In stamp and special taxes, was revealed Sunday by Secretary Secre-tary McAdoo In a statement based upon a preliminary report on a sweeping sweep-ing investigation conducted by Commissioner Com-missioner Osborne of the internal revenue rev-enue bureau. Frauds committed as long ago as 1902, immediately after the enactment of the law, have been uncovered by the commissioner. He began his inquiry in-quiry some months ago, but until lately late-ly no inkling had been given of the wide scope of the investigation or or Its results. Unpaid taxes aggregating $851,000 have been recovered and deposited in the treasury "with the prospect of further fur-ther very heavy collections." Forty-two violators of the law have been convicted since the first of January, Janu-ary, and twenty-nine of these have been given prison sentences. Fines aggregating $148,000, have been assessed in addition to the recoveries recov-eries actually made and the announcement announce-ment declares that "while fraudulent practices of this sort probably have been checked, the investigation will be conducted and every law breaker brought to justice." The announcement shows that since 1902 more than 200,000,000 pounds ot colored oleomargarine have been manufactured man-ufactured and fraudulently sold as un-colored un-colored oleo. |