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Benson SyndicatePosted on:3/29/2006
| The Benson Syndicate was an organized crime organization in the western United States involved with General Land Office land surveying fraud, and headed by one John A Benson, a former school teacher and later a reputable deputy land surveyor. |
The Benson Syndicate was an organized crime organization in the western United States involved with General Land Office land surveying fraud, and headed by one John A Benson, a former school teacher and later a reputable deputy land surveyor. The syndicate operated from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, was most active in California and headquartered in San Francisco, active from about 1875 to 1898, and was at its peak from 1883 to 1886. In California alone, at least 40 individuals were involved, and very probably more. Its modus operandi was to generate supposed demand for public land surveys (see Public Land Survey System) using fictitious land patent applications, followed by incomplete, shoddy, and/or outright fictitious surveys. These surveys were "performed" under contract to individual deputy surveyors, some of whom were not even aware that surveying contracts existed in their names, having been induced by Benson to sign blank papers which were later turned into contracts and other legal documents by Benson or his associates. Other times people with minimal surveying experience and/or lacking proper qualifications as deputy surveyors performed the work without the contracted surveyor ever being involved in any way. Often, an area under contract was surveyed only to the extent that was necessary to create plausible, but fabricated, survey plans and field notes for the remainder of the area. Other times, entire contracted areas, usually consisting of more than one township (approx 36 square miles), were fabricated by syndicate members, with little or no work on the ground at all.
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