Word: congressman
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...excerpt from the statement of united states attorney Eric H. Holder, Jr. as he announced the indictment of democratic congressman Dan Rostenkowski of Chicago, as reported by the associated press on June...
...next year she met her fate at a dinner party given by Charles Bartlett, a Washington journalist and socialite, and his wife Martha. The Bartletts were in a matchmaking mood and invited their old friend Jack Kennedy, then 34, a handsome, ambitious Congressman from Massachusetts. The introduction took. They dated, and he proposed by telephone to London, where she was snapping the coronation of Elizabeth II. "Jackie fell for him," says an old friend, "but she was amused by the situation too. After the engagement, she said she never knew she had so many friends...
...misdemeanors: embezzling from the House mailing office, abusing its stationery store to subsidize gifts for campaign workers and paying no-show workers in his Chicago district office. Rostenkowski's defense team has not yet denied some of those specifics. In fact, according to a source close to the Congressman, Bennett has given up on the idea of saving his client's chairmanship and is offering a plea in return for a reduction or elimination of prison time. Of the possibility that a deal might permit Rosty to keep the committee, the source says, "That's just not there...
...Illinois Congressman knows how to make good on a threat as well as a promise. Yet when the critical vote counting starts, he may not be around to deliver. Last week it was widely leaked that his lawyer, Robert Bennett, had met with prosecutors in the chairman's long-running criminal case and suggested that the Congressman might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. If that proposition were rebuffed, the accounts went, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder would probably request a felony indictment of Rostenkowski by Memorial...
...Holder's office might be willing to go along with it in order to avoid a jury trial. Said a source with knowledge of the government's case against Rostenkowski: "It's not a head shot." This means that regardless of what the feds think they can prove the Congressman or his employees did, the prosecutors lack overwhelming evidence to prove it was done with intent to perpetrate a major fraud. The prosecutors believe, moreover, that juries in the District of Columbia tend to favor the defendant. A Rostenkowski confidant says that if the two sides are to reach...