Word: cannoneering
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...accepting a kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
...reprehensible because it is officially sanctioned and done with great ceremony in the name of us all." Not simply just as bad, but worse: this may be the central emotional truth for those who most passionately disapprove of executions. The cretinous killer or the seething psychopath is a loose cannon. But the well-orchestrated modern execution, careful, and thoroughly considered, is horrible because of its meticulous sanity. Executions are worse, in the abolitionists' moral scheme, because the government is always in control; it knows better, but kills anyway...
MARRIED: Margaret Paebody Cannon, 1965 (divorced, 1970); Jane Gott O'Hare, 1973. CHILD: Christopher, 1968 (deccased...
...jury found the conspirators guilty on all eleven counts of the indictment, which charged that the defendants had "cut a deal" with Cannon in a face-to-face meeting in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 1979, and agreed to sell the Senator 5.8 acres of choice Teamster-owned property at a $200,000 discount in exchange for his help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. In fact, the deal hardly got beyond the talking stage, and Cannon voted for the deregulation bill when the Senate passed...
...worry about it.' " Williams testified that he promised Cannon only a "fair chance" to bid on the land, and said the Jan. 10 meeting was arranged simply to lobby the Senator. Cannon, who lost a bid for a fifth Senate term in November and was not charged in the case, testified he had neither been offered nor had accepted a bribe. The mostly blue-collar jury of six men and six women deliberated 27 hours over four days before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict...