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Getting Insull to face trial was more difficult. After the loss of his power empire, Insull had gone to Europe to rest and recuperate. In 1933 the government moved to force his return for the criminal indictments, chasing him from Paris to Italy to Greece. Greece had no extradition treaties with the United States, but political pressure from the Roosevelt administration prevailed: Insull was returned to the United States in May 1934. On 2 October 1934, at age seventy-four, Insull went on trial in Chicago. The gist of the fifty-page, twenty-five-count indictment was that Insull had engaged in a "simple conspiracy to swindle, cheat and defraud the public." The affair was hardly simple, and the details of Insull's finances bored the jury. But Insull's testimony was riveting, and it was wired to papers around the country. Rather than focus on the details of the indictment, Insull's attorney deftly led the old...
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