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...Bill Casey went far to undercut the Government's main case against both. The two men are charged with taking a secret $200,000 cash contribution for Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign from Financier Robert Vesco and, in return, trying to hinder an SEC investigation into his dealings with some overseas mutual funds...
...Casey did testify that Mitchell phoned him in December 1971 or January 1972 to ask if the SEC staff was unfairly harassing Vesco. But Casey said that he had received a number of complaints about how the SEC was handling the Vesco case. What was more, Mitchell's call came several months before Vesco made his campaign contribution...
Asked by Defense Lawyer Peter Fleming if Mitchell had ever requested him to "fix" the Vesco affair, Casey replied: "Nobody ever asked me to fix the case." And Walter Bonner, Stans' top lawyer, inquired: "Is it not a fact, Mr. Casey, that Maurice Stans never, never asked you to fix this complaint?" Casey replied: "That's a fact...
Campaign Smear. The Government has charged that Mitchell induced John Dean, then President Nixon's counsel, to contact Casey before the 1972 election and ask him to postpone some SEC subpoenas served on some of Vesco's employees. Casey acknowledged that he got a request from Dean on Nov. 2, 1972 -five days before the election. Dean, he said, wanted the testimony of the employees to be delayed until after the election, lest their appearances before a grand jury somehow be used as a "last-minute campaign smear." But, Casey added, Dean did not say that Mitchell...
Last week Casey backed the Government's charge that John Mitchell lied to a federal grand jury on April...