White v. Schoenfeld

This is an appeal from an order in bankruptcy, confirming the report of a referee, as special master, which denied the bank rupt’s discharge. The specifications, filed on May 25, 1937, were first, that the bankrupt had committed three crimes forbidden by the statute: (a) falsely stating in his schedules that he had no books, deeds or papers; (b) concealing or destroying such documents; (c) withholding them after petition filed; and second, that he had “destroyed, concealed or failed to keep books and records from which his financial condition and business transactions might be ascertained.”…