Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — $2,000,000 IN FINES PAID BY SUGAR MEN [ARTICLE]

$2,000,000 IN FINES PAID BY SUGAR MEN

Havemeyer Corporation Advised by Lawyers to Settle. New York, April 30.—The American Sugar Refining company of New Jersey and the New York corporation of the same name, paid into the treasury of the United States $896,000, completing a payment aggregating over $2,134,000 in settlement of all civil claims arising out of the fraudulent weighing of sugar on the docks of the refineries in Brooklyn and New Jersey. The settlement was made upon the advice of the Havemeyer and Elder lawyers. A statement was made public in which the attorneys say that the s'ettlement seemed wise because of the fact that the government had threatened otherwise to bring further suits for amounts reaching nearly $9,000,000. This settlement does not prevent criminal action against the pgi*sons who actually did the false weighing. The government lawyers do not state whether they will ask for indictments.