Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's alleged $10,000 bribe was actually only a small piece of the milk action. The milk producers had offered $2 million to President Nixon's 1972 campaign at the same time that they were lobbying for a boost in the price support of milk. Eventually, to forestall an even higher increase threatened by the Democratic Congress, Nixon has contended, the price was raised enough to give the producers an extra $300 million a year in income. Acting as a middleman in the producers' dealings with the White House in 1971, Connally, the indictment charges...
...case against Connally, however, does not rest on Jacobsen's testimony alone. Other witnesses have been lined up. Last week Harold Nelson, former general manager of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest milk cooperative, pleaded guilty to a charge that he had conspired to bribe Connally. In the information filed against Nelson, several other officials of milk co operatives were named as unindicted coconspirators. Some are likely to testify against Connally under immunity...
...than $10 million in assets) by inflated Texas standards, he hardly needed to risk his reputation and presidential ambitions for $10,000. Says a Washington politician: "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe...
...chief prosecution witness during the 1972 trial, Det. Robert S. Leuci, recently admitted perjuring himself during Rosner's first trial, but still maintains that Rosner tried to bribe him. In 1972, Rosner claimed that Leuci "pressured" and entrapped him into the bribe...
Peachum, a greedy and self-righteous rascal, and his alcholic wife (Margo Martindale) want better for their son-in-law than an infamous criminal. With little virtue of their own of which to boast, they bribe one of Mac's whores, Jenny Diver (Tiina Cartmell), into betraying him to the police. Scotland Yard is led by Mac's old army buddy, the powerful Tiger-Brown (Patrick Clean), whose own daughter Lucy (Cynthia Dickason) is also married secretly to Mac. Mac is arrested twice. The women fight for his allegiance. He is saved at the very end by a royal pardon...