Word: bondsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noises that prosecutors and crime reporters love to hear: Seymour announced three indictments in his continuing investigation of corruption in the enforcement-or non-enforcement-of narcotics laws. Then why was Seymour so unhappy? Because the suspects accused so far are minor figures (a junior detective, a bail bondsman's investigator, a lawyer). Far more important fish had slipped away, he charged, because of holes ripped in his net by the New York Times and Daily News. Seymour insisted that their premature stories had "substantially terminated" his undercover investigation...
...National United Committee to Free Angela Davis provided $2,500 in cash and the $8,500 bondsman's fee toward Angela's bond; the remainder came from a most remarkable source: Rodger McAfee, 33, a white farmer who put up 405 acres of his family's 1,100-acre cooperative farm near Fresno, Calif., as collateral for the remaining $100,000. McAfee said he had given the deed covering the property to the Communist Party's Northern California section a year ago for eventual bonding purposes. "I'm just a working man who agrees with...
Yemen. To rebuild his army, he allowed himself to become the bondsman of the Soviet Union, and he squandered Egypt's limited resources in pursuit of disastrously misguided goals...