E. M. Fuller and Co. bankruptcy trial, or the Fuller case, was a criminal trial referring to the prosecution of Edward M. Fuller and William F. McGee for using their brokerage firm E. M. Fuller and Co. as a "bucket shop" in the early 1920s. United States Attorney William Hayward was assisted in the case by assistant US Attorney John E. Joyce. The case started when the firm went bankrupt in 1922, and creditors petitioned to recover assets from E. M. Fuller & Co., as the assets "mysteriously disappeared" when the firm went bankrupt. Ultimately Fuller and McGee pled guilty, and were convicted of operating a bucketshop in connection with E.M. Fuller Co., for defrauding its customers around $4,000,000 by bucketing the orders of customers. The case also resulted in trials for high-profile New Yorkers such as Consolidated Exchange president William S. Silkworth, attorney William J. Fallon, sports broker Charles A. Stoneham, and gambler Arnold Rothstein.
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