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DIED. HENRY (BUDDY) CIANFRANI, 79, flamboyant Democratic strategist and former Pennsylvania state senator who won back an old ward-leader seat in 1988 after serving 27 months in jail in the late '70s on racketeering charges; after a stroke in May; in Philadelphia. His romance with his future wife, journalist Laura Foreman, who covered him at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times, led Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal to ask for Foreman's resignation in 1977, reportedly saying, "It's O.K. to f___ elephants, just don't cover the circus...
...political corruption hard. In May, Marston got the state speaker of the house, Herbert Fineman. convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving influence peddling to help students gain admission to medical schools. Just last month the most powerful member of the state senate, Philadelphia Democrat Henry J. Cianfrani. pleaded guilty to 106 counts on various charges-including obstruction of justice, tax evasion and mail fraud-involving efforts to place his girlfriend and others in no-show jobs on the senate appropriations committee...
While Shapp mulled over what to do, the protest and counterprotest boiled on. In an unusual turn, Patricia Arney, 32, a divorcee who is a district Democratic committeewoman, revealed to the Philadelphia Inquirer that State Senator Henry J. Cianfrani, 49, one of the conservative bill's strongest supporters, had paid for her abortion in 1970 while they were having an affair, and produced a receipt for his check to prove it. He did not deny their relationship, but said that he had given her the money to visit her family in Toledo and did not know that there...
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