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...verdicts that can be reached." U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman sent them back into the wood-paneled jury room in Tampa, Fla., to deliberate further. After two more days, the jurors finally re-emerged last week with most of a verdict. Handsome, silver-haired ex-Senator Edward J. Gurney, 61, the first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be criminally indicted while in office, was found not guilty of bribery, of taking unlawful compensation, and of three counts of lying to a grand jury. The jurors disagreed on a fourth perjury count and a conspiracy charge. Judge Krentzman declared...
...page indictment, the grand jury accused Gurney on seven felony counts: one each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts alleging perjury before the grand jury itself. He could face up to 42 years in prison. Estimates of the money said to have been raised illegally or to have gone illegally unreported have run as high as $400,000, and Gurney has even admitted that the total might have topped $300,000. The grand jury settled for $233,000 as more provable...
...star prosecution witness was Larry E. Williams, who said he had been hired by Gurney in 1971 to raise a "booster fund." Gurney denied that. They were indeed a somewhat contrasting pair. Gurney, Maine-born, Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that...
...Gurney says he did not know...
...know were the Senator's Florida aide, George Anderson, and a state Republican leader, Earl M. Crittenden. They instructed him, says Williams, not to tell Gurney any specifics about the fund arrangements...