Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to these investigative avenues specifically challenged by the Administration, the Cox task force was looking into a wide variety of other reported criminal acts. They range from "dirty tricks" allegedly committed in behalf of candidates of both parties to various allegations of perjury. Yet the central thrust seems directed at the all but endless amounts of cash raised by Nixon's moneymen during the last three biennial elections-some $60 million for the 1972 race alone...
Still, investigators for both the Cox staff and the Senate Watergate committee are understandably curious as to why Rebozo would allow $100,000 to languish for three years in a safe-deposit box in his Key Biscayne bank, as he claims, where he could not even collect interest on it. Moreover, one of the payments was made on the very day that Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, apparently as a favor to the President, were concluding a deal to buy a chunk of Nixon's property in San Clemente...
...been looking into the institute deposits. Beyond that, TIME has learned that Bellino and two accountants recently spent a week in Los Angeles delving into records of a "nonprofit educational foundation" suspected of concealing gifts to Nixon, then departed abruptly for Miami. Sources close to the investigation report that Cox became privy to the results of their work in the days just before his ouster...
...portion of the list of illegal corporate contributors to Nixon's 1972 campaign has been made public. So far three companies-Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 3M and American Airlines-have been fined for unlawfully dipping into corporate funds for gifts to the President's re-election effort. Cox's investigators claimed that they were looking into possible violations by two dozen other firms and labor unions...
Alarming Tips. In pursuing this plethora of leads, Cox's staff had subpoenaed masses of bank records and deployed several dozen accountants from the IRS and the FBI to examine them. Members of the special prosecuting team suspect that the White House received tips from one of the federal agencies and became alarmed at the burgeoning scope of Cox's investigation. In addition, Administration officials may have disliked Cox's success in persuading former presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency...