[3] Landon ordered the treasurer to allow the federal agents to investigate, and this led to the Great Kansas Bond Scandal of 1933–4.
After Brewster's term as district attorney was over, Landon recruited him to lead the successful prosecution of Ronald Finney, his father, and others for forging copies of over a million dollars in bonds.
The Finney family were prominent Kansas bankers and close friends of Landon and of his backer, newspaperman William Allen White.
Brewster was described as "unkempt", but capable of reciting extensive chunks of Shakespeare verbatim and of reading the Greek and Latin authors in their original languages.
He had a record of being an aggressive prosecutor; a reporter said, "Eating breakfast with a grizzly bear is a joy as compared to being on the opposite side of a rough and tumble lawsuit with Brewster.