# Moses L. Annenberg

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Named in the 1939 Consensus Publishing tax indictment and dismissed before trial; the Supreme Court called him "the dominant figure" in several horse-race betting corporations, and 1950 testimony traces the Continental Press wire service to the business he gave up in 1939.

Moses L. Annenberg appears in these records as the owner of the Chicago race-news bureaus that came before Continental Press and as a defendant named in the 1939 Consensus Publishing indictment. The role line is the Supreme Court's statement of facts the jury could have found in United States v. Ragen; it is not a finding about any other business.

His own plea, sentence and dates are not stated in any primary record filed here. The Consensus opinion says only that he was dismissed as a defendant in that case before trial. Arthur McBride, testifying in Cleveland in January 1951 (Kefauver Part 6, filed with the Cleveland records), said Annenberg gave up the business "about a day or two before he went in and pleaded guilty in Federal court"; that is a witness's recollection. A Tacoma Times page of 12 August 1939 on his tax indictment is held back on rights grounds and is not filed.

## Sources

- United States v. Ragen, 314 U.S. 513 (1942), via CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/103582/united-states-v-ragen/