Word: greylord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction of seven judges and 17 other public officials...
LeFevour became the fourth Chicago-area judge convicted as a result of a federal probe called Greylord. Last week was bad all over for the judiciary: in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr., charged with taking oil-well royalties as a bribe and with perjury, became the third sitting U.S. judge ever indicted for activity related to judicial duty...
...separate, though often related, procedure: the use of criminals as witnesses. The De Lorean case was the Government's third defeat in the past four months in major trials involving witnesses with unsavory backgrounds. Earlier this month, in a Cook County, Ill., case that was part of the Greylord investigation of judicial corruption, Judge John G. Laurie was cleared of bribery and other charges in part 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...
Implicated in the scheme was Richard LeFevour, presiding judge of the First Municipal District. His name and those of the lawyers surfaced last week in the bribery trial of Cook County Circuit Judge John Murphy, 68, one of 18 Chicagoans indicted so far as a result of Operation Greylord, a three-year undercover FBI investigation. LeFevour, who has not been indicted, called the allegations "a pack of lies...