Born to the Ingram dynasty of Nashville, Tennessee, he was charged with bribing government officials over a sewage contract in Chicago, and jailed for 16 months.
[2][3] His paternal great-grandfather three times removed, David Ingram, had immigrated from Leeds, England, in 1780.
[4] His paternal great-grandfather, Orrin Henry Ingram, was a lumber baron in Wisconsin.
[7] In 1976, Ingram and his brother were indicted for bribing officials in Illinois for a "$48 million Chicago sewage contract".
[9] However, while his brother was acquitted, Ingram was charged on 29 counts and sentenced to four years in prison.
[11] Ingram renounced his United States citizenship and moved to Monaco after his sentence was commuted.
[4] He lived off the income from a Liechtenstein-based US$150 million trust fund until Ingram Corp. was reduced to insolvency in 1984 by large oil trading losses.