Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faces was missing from the portrait gallery at the Department of Interior after Albert B. Fall, Warren Harding's Secretary of the Interior, was convicted in 1929 of accepting a $100,000 bribe to lease some California oil lands to a drilling company. Officials removed his picture from the pantheon of former Secretaries and carted it off to storage. There it remained through the years, while Fall fought an appeal through the courts, eventually served a one-year jail term in 1931 and died a broken man in 1944. Last week Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall...
Immune Plant. To snare Hoffa, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Justice Department deliberately used spy tactics to get evidence, for which, Chief Justice Earl Warren sadly said, "the Government paid an enormous price." Soon after Hoffa went on trial in Nash ville in 1962 for accepting a bribe from trucking operators, the Government curtly told the judge that he was trying to bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time...
...years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which Osborn unknowingly spilled his suborning instructions...
First proposed 59 years ago by President Theodore Roosevelt, who even then was worried about the fine distinction between a big campaign contribution and a bribe, the law was finally passed last month on the 89th Congress' final day. Called the "Long Plan," after its Senate sponsor, Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana, it allows the taxpayer to allot $1 of his income tax ($2 in a joint return) for presidential campaign expenses. The amount of the fund will vary in proportion to the number of votes cast in the previous presidential election; it will be divided evenly...
Press v. Privacy. After obscenity, the court faces more redolence: Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's 1963 conviction (eight years, $10,000) for fixing a 1962 Tennessee jury that acquitted him of the charge of taking a bribe from a trucking company. Hoffa protests that the Justice Department's tampering evidence came from a "spy," planted among his entourage, who violated his right to counsel by attending some of Hoffa's conferences with his attorney. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr., who got 3½ years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government...