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Investigating Frenkil's maneuvering, U.S. Attorney Stephen Sachs became convinced last winter that he had a case against Frenkil, Long and Brewster, and sought Justice Department approval to indict all three. The permission was denied. Undaunted, Sachs tried again; last month, four days before he was due to retire he went to see Attorney General John Mitchell, this time proposing to indict only Frenkil but still naming Long, Brewster and Boggs. Once again, Mitchell turned him down. The Justice Department has also kept secret its knowledge of the illegal campaign contributions received by Long and Boggs from a Louisiana...
...Beall, his Republican replacement. Beall proved as determined as his predecessor. He told Mitchell that he agreed with Sachs and sought permission to prosecute. Mitchell remained unmoved; his reluctance was both practical and political. Some Justice Department officials felt that there was insufficient evidence to prove the charges against Frenkil. Nor were they enthusiastic about prosecuting public officials on a "one on one" basis, relying on the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness, former Brewster aide John Sullivan, to prove the key points of the prosecution in the case...
...grand jury was determined to press the case against Frenkil. The jurors prepared a presentment that named Frenkil and half a dozen present and former Congressmen, including Long and Boggs, and cited 45 overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Submitting it to the judge, they asked that it be made public. Their action precipitated a panic. Lawyers for Frenkil and others, claiming only to represent "John Doe, Peter Poe and Richard Roe, et al.," petitioned the court to prevent publication of the document, which they felt would damage their clients. In response, Federal District Judge Roszel Thornsen steered...
Damning Result. The result is almost as damning as an indictment. Emphasizing that no one is being formally charged, the judge's report nonetheless names Frenkil and his firm as co-defendants in a proposed grand jury indictment and notes that the grand jury was willing to charge him with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government of the right to the "disinterested services" of its officials by threats, promises and bribery. It is hardly less sparing of Long and Boggs, noting that they committed no criminal act but linking their names with a man who the grand jury believes...
...judge's decision means that Frenkil is safe, but not yet home. Further action by the present grand jury is unlikely before it dissolves this week, but Beall has made it clear that he plans to continue his investigation. "I would like very much to hit pay dirt on this thing," he says. Beall might do just that if the Government is successful in its present efforts to persuade Nathan Voloshen to talk about what he did for Frenkil...