Word: councilman
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Wearing a cream-colored suit, brown-tinted aviator glasses and diamond rings on each pinkie, Weinberg last week began a new role: as the star witness of the first ABSCAM trial. The defendants are Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., and three Philadelphians: Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Howard Criden. All are accused of accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in return for Myers' promise to introduce an immigration bill...
...federal grand jury in Brooklyn handed down five, four of them involving Philadelphians. Two are Democratic Congressmen: Michael ("Ozzie") Myers and Raymond Lederer. The others: Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johanson, Attorney Howard Criden and Camden (N.J.) Mayor Angelo Errichetti. All are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the U.S. They could receive prison terms of up to 25 years and fines of at least...
...taxes in-kind service is the brain child of a former city councilman, Nicholas Carbone, who persuaded the city to launch it four years ago. More and more of the city's elderly and handicapped were losing their only asset, their homes, because of steadily rising tax bills. It was the city's obligation to help, said Carbone. Since then, Hartford has spent between $22,800 and $66,000 a year for the program. The unions haven't complained, since no budgeted jobs are involved. There are usually about 100 eligible clients, and if there should...
...going back until they pay me all my money." Early in the week that prospect seemed dim. On a local television show, the mayor, the president of the school board, the city's top financial adviser, the head of the teachers' union and a key city councilman-all of whom must cooperate to lead the school system out of financial chaos-engaged in a shouting match punctuated with name calling and charges of lying. The performance threatened to undermine further the credibility of the city's leaders in the eyes of the financiers whose help...
Coached by the world's pre-eminent authority on the sport, James "Doc" Councilman, the Hoosiers have compiled a most impressive record over the past 22 seasons. They have won 217 dual meets while dropping only ten and have finished among the top five at the NCAAs 16 times since Councilman came to Bloomington...