Word: hedgecock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After he was convicted on 13 felony counts of conspiracy and perjury two weeks ago, San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock resigned. Then last Thursday, amid allegations of jury tampering, Hedgecock's lawyers filed a motion for a new trial. The following day, just before he was due to leave office, Hedgecock announced that he would stay on, pending the outcome. Said he: "If there is no valid verdict, there is no basis for resignation...
...popular leader, Hedgecock had already eluded downfall twice. Last November voters re-elected him for a second term, although he was under indictment for lying to conceal irregularities in the financing of his first mayoral campaign. Last February his first trial ended in a hung jury. Hedgecock's third chance at redemption came when two jurors from the latest trial reported that a bailiff, Al Burroughs Jr., had attempted to influence the panel during the 6 1/2 days it was sequestered. At least one juror reportedly changed his vote to guilty on one count after Burroughs informed him that...
When Republican Roger Hedgecock vaulted to the office of mayor of San Diego in a special election in May 1983, his future seemed all blue sky and candy. The former San Diego County supervisor had already earned a reputation as an innovative politician determined to help the community ward off urban sprawl, and as mayor he won approval for a new bay-front convention center and helped attract the 1988 Super Bowl to San Diego. So strong was the Hedgecock sentiment that last November voters awarded him a full four-year term as mayor, even though he had been indicted...
...mayor admitted inexpressible "disappointment" and "anguish" at the verdict. The superior-court jury was sequestered almost seven days before reaching its verdict, largely because it found confronting the evidence a "painful experience," as Juror Karen Dyer put it. In the end, the panel concluded that Hedgecock had 1) conspired to allow some $360,000 in illicit funds to be channeled into his 1983 campaign, and 2) lied over and over to cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock...
...telltale check was written by onetime Currency Trader J. David Dominelli, who is serving a 20-year federal term for fraud and income tax evasion. Dominelli's business partner and ex-girlfriend, Nancy Hoover, gave Hedgecock the money used on his house. Dominelli and Hoover are slated to be tried later, along with Political Consultant Tom Shepard, through whose firm hidden money passed to the Hedgecock campaign. Hedgecock's attorney, Oscar Goodman, said he will seek a new trial or, failing that, appeal the jury verdict. Hedgecock also faces legal action by California's Fair Political Practices Commission, which...