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...federal judge Dudley B. Bonsal said that Lamont had bought his stock after a press conference announcing the discovery, and therefore, had not violated the law. The law prohibits "insiders"--officers, directors, and major stockholders--from using privileged information for their own gain...
...Judge Bonsal also cleared nine of Lamont's co-defendants. Only the secretary of Texas Gulf Sulphur and a Geophysicist, who had helped survey the ore deposit, were found guilty...
Lamont was a director of Texas Gulf Sulphur, and all the other defendants were either directors, officers, or employers of the company. The thirteenth man, Thomas P. O'Nell, the company's former accountant, did not file an answer to the suit and was not mentioned in Judge Bonsal's decision...
...second time before the bar, Roy Cohn got another break. Unlike Sam Sheppard (see above), he never had to worry about an overzealous and unfriendly press. Reporters rarely got near him. At the outset of the trial, Judge Dudley Bonsal warned jurors to avoid reading controversial stories about Cohn and not to see Point of Order, the documentary film on the Army-McCarthy hearings in which Cohn starred. Judge Bonsal refused to let newsmen into the well of the court during recess to talk to witnesses or counsel, and he scolded those papers that printed the names of the jurors...
Some of the blame must rest with whoever edited the book for Braziller. For example, criticism of the American Ambassadors, Arthur Gardner, Earl E. T. Smith, and Phillip Bonsal is interspersed throughout the volume, and had it been collected and discussed within one chapter, a far clearer statement of what Ambassadorial responsibilities entail would have resulted...