Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. According to insiders, the man in charge of funneling funds into G.O.P. coffers is one Herbert W. Kalmbach. Last week potential backers of the Republican Convention in San Diego received copies of a letter signed by John Keeney, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's fraud division. While ordinary political contributions are not tax-deductible -contributions by corporations are in fact illegal-the letter all but assures that contributions to the convention can be written off under a new federal law effective April 7. In convoluted legalese, Keeney explains that to be deductible as a business expense...
...related developments, 13 election judges were arrested in Chicago on various charges of voting fraud...
Liszka's testimony became suspect when he admitted talking to Justice Department officials about it both before and after visiting Mrs. Beard in Denver. Moreover it was learned that U.S. Attorneys had recently investigated him on charges of fraud in Medicare billings (he was subsequently cleared), and was still considering similar accusations against his doctor-wife Katherine...
...Government's files are probably closed for the present. The chargees against the three defendants-including grand larceny, conspiracy, perjury and mail fraud-could theoretically result in sentences of more than 100 years in prison for each defendant. But if the three plead guilty this week and can return the $750,000 they extracted from McGraw-Hill, there is a chance that Irving may receive a light sentence and serve as little as six months, with Edith getting a suspended sentence in return for cooperation with authorities and Suskind being sent up for a short stretch in a state...
Convicted of such offenses as impersonating an Army officer, assaulting an FBI agent and fraud, Douglas has spent most of the past eight years in federal prisons. Following a conviction for passing $19,215 worth of bad checks, he was sent to the Lewisburg, Pa., penitentiary. There, in 1970, he befriended Philip Berrigan, who is serving a sentence for destroying Selective Service records. Douglas was permitted to leave the prison during the day to attend classes at nearby Bucknell University. Soon he began to smuggle letters in and out of prison between Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister. Douglas subsequently delivered...