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Perhaps the most valuable commodity bought by all that cash is freedom. Once caught, suspected drug dealers are often released on bail of $1 million or more. They typically pay it within hours, sometimes in cash, and skip town. Dealers regard the forfeited bail as merely a cost of doing business. If a prosecutor's case is airtight, money can sometimes pry it open. "We pay for what we need as we need it," one lawyer bragged to TIME. "If we can't bribe the cop, we try to bribe the prosecutor and, if we can't get the prosecutor...
...youngest sister Babe Botrelle (Mia Dillon) has reached full immaturity. She is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach and very nearly killing him. Asked why she did it, Babe replies, "I didn't like his looks." Prior to the attempted murder, Babe had been carrying on an affair with a 15-year-old black boy. Asked to explain that, Babe answers, "I was so lonely and he was gooood...
...Boudin, was one of the five original members of the Weather Bureau, W.U.O.'s governing council. He and Raskin, who have a four-year-old son, were arraigned in New York last week on a 1979 charge for possession of explosives. Raskin was later released on $ 100,000 bail posted by her brother. The couple have not been linked with the Brink...
...Chevrolet van used by the Nyack thieves. Investigators found a rental agreement for another car, signed by Rosahn, in a search of Boudin's apartment. Last week Rosahn was indicted as an accessory in the robbery and three killings in Nyack. District Attorney Gribetz asked that no bail be set for the activist. "She's an individual who would flee the jurisdiction," he said. In fact, Rosahn had been temporarily freed only days earlier on $10,000 bail posted by her radical-minded mother, in connection with an antiapartheid rioting charge. Rosahn's alleged complicity provided...
...Underground movement of that period and a fugitive from justice for eleven years. Once on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list for her participation in the 1969 "Days of Rage" demonstrations in Chicago, Boudin no longer faced federal charges, but was liable for prosecution in Illinois for jumping bail. She had been in hiding since March 6, 1970, when a Greenwich Village town house used as a Weather Underground bomb factory accidentally exploded, killing three group members. Boudin and a comrade, Cathlyn Wilkerson, fled naked from the burning wreckage. Wilkerson turned herself in ten years later...