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By 1919 J. Edgar Hoover and the BOI would charge Marcus Garvey and three other officers with mail fraud.The prosecution stated that the brochure of the Black Star Line had a picture of a ship that the BSL did not own. The ship pictured was the "Orion", which in the brochure was renamed the Phyllis Wheatley, and at the time was going to be bought by the BSL but was still not owned by them. The fact that the ship was not owned yet by the BSL warranted mail fraud. "In 1922 Garvey and three other Black Star Line officials were indicted by the U.S. government for using the mails fraudulently to solicit stock for the defunct steamship line." The Jury would only convicted Garvey, not the other three officers, and he would be sentenced to five years in prison and in 1927 Calvin Coolidge would depart Garvey back to Jamaica.