Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaks more eloquently than any words to the character of a leader who has raised lying to the level of official policy. And even if we believe the tapes, even if they are arranged to exculpate the President, they will not exonerate him for other offenses of "the most corrupt administration in American history...
...Justice Department under Attorney General John Mitchell indicted Hall and seven other Seafarers' Union officials for violations of the Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for corporations or unions to donate money to political campaigns. The case against Hall was strong. The Government reportedly had witnesses ready to testify that the union forced them to contribute to political causes, a practice so widespread within the union that the Seafarers' Political Activity Donation Fund (SPAD) was the richest such fund within the AFL-CIO and enabled Hall to disburse nearly $ 1,000,000 in campaign donations...
While Hall and his lieutenants waited for the ax to fall, however, the Government unaccountably sat on its hands. Curiously, the Justice Department at the same time was preparing its case against United Mine Workers Boss Tony Boyle under the same Corrupt Practices Act. But while the Boyle case ended in prosecution and conviction, the one against Hall was dismissed by the court in May last year on the grounds that the Government had not pushed it in prompt fashion. The Justice Department did not appeal the decision, in effect simply dropping the case...
...joint administrators of the investigation of the Harding Administration's Teapot Dome scandal. Twice in the past dozen years, Chicago has turned to Attorney Barnabas Sears to pursue charges involving the city's police force. In New York City, Judge Samuel Seabury raked and ultimately broke the corrupt Roaring Twenties administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker; Thomas Dewey probed the "politico-criminal alliance" that underlay the city's racketeering...
...Hanrahan and his co-defendents were acquitted, but his actions cost the Daley machine plenty. Hanrahan's defeat in last fall's election let in a Republican State's Attorney who has been prosecuting and convicting corrupt Democratic officials for the past year...