Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury in U.S. district court convicted Alderman Thomas Keane, 69, the machine's second most powerful mem ber, on 17 counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy in secret land deals...
...scandal. Given the disclosure in the White House tapes that he had tried to cover up the Watergate burglary ever since June 23, 1972, he had faced the serious possibility of being charged with obstructing justice. For other acts while President, he had also faced federal indictment for tax fraud and possibly for misuse of Government funds for his private homes and violation of the rights of Daniel Ellsberg and his former psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding...
...through 1972, to ignore an additional deficiency of some $171,000 for 1969. Although Nixon has publicly pledged to pay this amount, the statute of limitations for that year has run out, and he is not legally obligated to do so. The pardon excuses him from any criminal tax-fraud charges. Nixon also faces a "balloon" payment, already once postponed, of more than $200,000 on his San Clemente mortgage...
Cloudy Future. Though Nixon has been freed of the overwhelming anxiety that he would be indicted and have to face trial, he has not been freed from all the legal troubles growing out of the Watergate affair. Technically, he still faces the possibility of state criminal action for tax fraud in California, though this is considered extremely unlikely. More conceivably, citizens resentful about what they regard as illegal expenditures on the President's homes in California and Florida could bring civil suits. Further, action in the federal courts could be initiated by someone like former National Security Council Staffer...
...Drugs. In his last term in office, Rockefeller made a calculated shift toward conservatism. He knew that if he was ever going to become President, he would have to anchor his right. He began condemning "welfare cheaters" and appointed a state inspector to weed out fraud on the relief rolls. He declared war on drug pushers by winning passage of a bill mandating a life sentence for anyone convicted of selling hard drugs. When a revolt broke out among convicts at Attica state prison in 1971, he refused to meet with the rebels as they demanded. When they failed...