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...year, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff has investigated whether ITT Corp.'s pledge of financial sup port for the 1972 Republican National Convention influenced a controversial antitrust settlement in the company's favor. Last week, in a letter to a Congressman who had complained that the ITT probe appeared dormant, Jaworski disclosed that his staff had uncovered no evidence of any criminal conduct by ITT executives in the case...
...office is also continuing its inquiry of possible perjury by ITT executives and former federal officials in the case. Last month former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Nixon ordered him not to appeal an antitrust court decision favoring ITT. He asks only that he have two olives in his martinis at the end of his 16-hour days and that when he arrives at an event, the band strike up the Michigan fight song rather than a more pompous ceremonial fanfare. He travels light...
...oldest of the Nieman Fellows at 39, Matthews said his biggest scoop was the first major ITT story in August 1971. The article linked an antitrust settlement in favor of the ITT with conferences ITT executives had with Nixon administration officials...
...rumbling from Washington has been growing louder for months. "These fee arrangements," said Bruce Wilson, the Justice Department's No. 2 antitrust man, "can be viewed as little more than cartels." Added Keith Clearwaters, a deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged...
...Appeals held that the Virginia state bar association, as a quasi-official body, is immune from such suits. The court also endorsed two other defenses: that local lawyers making title searches do not sufficiently affect interstate commerce and that the law and other "learned professions" are exempt from antitrust regulation. The Oregon bar will rely on similar defenses. Justice lawyers are undeterred. "We simply believe the Fourth Circuit is wrong," says Bruce Wilson. "So it's clear that we have to have a definitive U.S. Supreme Court resolution of this question...