Language: English / Names: Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Evidence used during the bribery trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Six checks signed by Louis Berman dated in June and August of 1928. Four of the checks are made out to B. [Ben] Getzoff. A tailor shop employee testified that he saw Ben Getzoff give cash to Asa Keyes. Former district attorney Asa Keyes, was convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation in 1929.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Letter dated May 12, 1928, from Los Angeles County district attorney Asa Keyes to Frank Jordan, Secretary of State, California, asking if the name "American Loan and Mortgage Company" is available for corporate use.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: About 18 men and 2 women stand at the entrance of the courtroom for the trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Keyes was tried and convicted for accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. A sign on the wall behind them reads "Superior Court Department 5."
Date:: [1928-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Former district attorney, Asa Keyes (left), with his attorney Paul Schenck in a courtroom during Keyes' trial for accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Evidence used during the bribery trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Check in the amount of #$1,500.00 made out to B. Getzoff and signed by Louis Berman. Former district attorney Asa Keyes, was convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation in 1929.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Evidence used during the bribery trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Check in the amount of #$1,500.00 made out to B. Getzoff and signed by Louis Berman. Former district attorney Asa Keyes, was convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation in 1929.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exhibit in the bribery case against former district attorney Asa Keyes: the back of a check that was endorsed by B[en] Getzoff. Former district attorney Asa Keyes, was convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation in 1929.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A small open notepad with cursive handwriting on it lies on a table. Around it are four bundles of notecards and business cards, gathered together with either string or paperclip. There is cursive handwriting on the notecards as well.
Date:: [between 1923-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Some text from the letter: "Mrs. Wiseman further stated that she could and would bring three witnesses to prove that she was the person in the cottage. Mr. Keyes asked who they were, and she stated that she would bring them. Upon Mr. Keyes' later repeated inquiry as to who the witnesses were, Mrs. Wiseman informed him that one was her son in university, one was a dentist and another was the man who drove her to and fro."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Evidence used during the bribery trial of former district attorney Asa Keyes. Six checks signed by Louis Berman dated in June and August of 1928. Four of the checks are made out to B. [Ben] Getzoff. A tailor shop employee testified that he saw Ben Getzoff give cash to Asa Keyes. Former district attorney Asa Keyes, was convicted of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation in 1929.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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