Word: felons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one of them was forgiven by his constituents. Idaho Republican George Hansen, 54, had been convicted of filing false financial disclosure reports, and is appealing his five to 15-month prison sentence. His district's predominantly Republican voters had difficulty deciding whether they preferred a felon to a Democrat. Richard Stallings, 44, a college history professor, treated Hansen's crime obliquely in his campaign. "Some claim to be fiscal conservatives but their own lives do not attest to that," he said. "I stay out of debt and pay the bills when they come due." By dawn...
...crime. Three fifths of the 10 million suspects were charged. And of these, only 1500 successfully pleaded insanity. And while psychiatry offers no insurance against violence, statistics on recidivism indicate that the probability of repeated crime by a treated mentally ill offender is somewhat lower than for a felon released from prison...
Across the state, Helms, the champion of the New Right, blasts at Hunt, calling the two-term governor a "racist," a "felon," and a "consummate liar." Hunt, whose billing as a moderate New South politician gave him an early but fleeting lead, fires back, attacking Helms as the "High Priest" of a nationwide "network of right-wing extremists...
...because the jury did not believe testimony against him by several corrupt witnesses, including two police officers. And the first trial of Nevada Federal Judge Harry Claiborne ended in a hung jury in April because the jurors gave little credence to the testimony of Joe Conforte, a thrice-convicted felon, former international fugitive and once owner of the Silver State's most notorious brothel. The raspy-voiced, Sicilian-born Conforte resembled a character in a Mario Puzo novel as he related how he had given Judge Claiborne $85,000 in bribes to fix cases for him. Defense Attorney Oscar...
...report several large-scale financial transactions totaling some $334,000 over four years, including a concealed loan of $61,000 to his wife Connie from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt in 1978. Hansen, who voluntarily refrained from voting in the House after his conviction, was the first convicted felon permitted to continue serving in that chamber since Michigan Democrat Charles Diggs was convicted in 1978 for diverting employees' salaries...