Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940 [PAGE 92]

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8. Verdict of the jury, finding Tinkoff guilty in the above entitled matter, and motion for new trial entered and continued to July 24, 1934. The verdict appears to be dated Friday, June 15, 1934, also containing sentence of the court dated Monday, July 30, 1934. Also a certification by Charles M. Bates to the correctness of these copies. Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois certified August 15, 1934. 9. Copy of an order made at the October term of the Supreme Court of the United States in Tinkoff v. United States of America, denying Tinkoff's petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The order is dated May 3, 1937, and filed June 4, 1937, by Campbell, Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. To this is attached the certificate of Campbell that exhibit 9 is a correct copy of an order in his office. 10. Memorandum opinion of Justice Adkins, in Tinkoff v. Andrew Mellon, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which memorandum is dated November 24, 1930, in equity No. 51867. The opinion is on a motion for a preliminary injunction to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing an order suspending plaintiff from practicing before the Treasury Department. The court denied the motion and held that the Secretary had before him sufficient evidence upon which a reasonable man might find against the plaintiff. The opinion shows that the Secretary on August 20, 1930, made his final order against Tinkoff and that the case was passed on directly by a t least seven officials in the Treasury Department and finally by the Secretary himself. There is attached an authentication by Stewart, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. 11. A duly authenticated order of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, dated June 2, 1937, striking the name of Tinkoff from the roll of attorneys of this State and " t h a t he be forever disbarred from the practice of law in any of the courts in this State." 12. Authenticated copy of Article 14 of the by-laws of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, adopted by that organization on September 12, 1933. 13. Certified copy of Section 2 of the constitution of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, adopted on November 6, 1903, setting forth the objects of that organization. 14. Certification by Henry Freeman of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois certifying that Charles M. Bates was appointed Clerk of the United States District Court for this District on February 3, 1925, and served as such continuously until March 4, 1935, and that he himself was appointed and took office on March 4, 1935. 15. Certification by Evan A. Evans, United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, to the effect that Frederick G. Campbell has been the duly qualified and acting Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since July 30, 1931, the certification being dated December 6, 1937. There is attached also a certification by Campbell that Evans is Circuit Judge, as stated above. 16. Certified copy of an order in the Supreme Court of the United States, No. 889, October Term 1936, Tinkoff v. United States of America, denying Tinkoff's petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 17. This exhibit is a duplicate of exhibit 11, an order of the Supreme Court of Illinois striking Tinkoff's name from the roll of attorneys. This exhibit, however, is certified to by the clerk, Adam Bloch, and Chief Justice Farthing certifies t h a t Bloch is the Clerk of the Court, and Bloch certifies that Farthing is the Chief Justice of the Court.

SUPPLEMENTARY L I S T OF MATTERS N O T ON THE PRECEDING L I S T OF E X H I B I T S

1. Proof of service of notice of hearing before the Board of Trustees, service made July 20, 1938. 2. Letter, Cunningham to Tinkoff, July 7, 1938. 3. Acknowledgment by Tinkoff that he had received copy of Report of Committee on Accountancy. 4. Request by Tinkoff for subpoena. Form of subpoena sent him and Cunningham's letter (copy).