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When Tongsun Park touches down in Washington this week for his rendezvous with congressional Koreagate probers, he will have few legal problems to fear. Attorney William G. Hundley, a wry, wisecracking former Justice Department crime fighter, has arranged full immunity from prosecution for Park in return for his testimony in criminal proceedings. If Park testifies truthfully before congressional committees, he will return to Korea a free man, largely as the result of Hundley's hard bargaining...
...Park deal explains why Hundley, 52, a gregarious Irishman with a Flatbush accent, is beginning to rival Edward Bennett Williams as the capital's top criminal defense attorney. A spiffy dresser who favors loud sports coats, Hundley is on good terms with the Washington press corps. He also can draw on invaluable friendships and expertise accumulated during 16 years as a Justice Department lawyer. His contacts can help him tell where an inquiry is heading, and his experience and instincts help him to detect when a prosecutor is bluffing...
...Hundley has defended former Attorney General John Mitchell; Democratic Fund Raiser W. Dale Hess, one of the figures in the corruption trial starring Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel; Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr.; a number of FBI agents implicated in illegal searches; and even, briefly, Richard Nixon...
...good-humored William Hundley, summing up for John Mitchell, conceded that "the maestro of the White House may have been orchestrating some pretty strange tunes." But Hundley contended that "it is obvious that John Mitchell was not one of the boys in that band." Though Neal had referred to Defendants Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson as "cymbals" in the ensemble, Mardian's attorney, Thomas Green, insisted that his client "never sat in the orchestra-he sat down in the seats ... finally got up and walked out." H.R. Haldeman, who might have been described as first violin, was not assigned...
...payment to the original Watergate burglary defendants, but did he know that its purpose was to silence them? The Government's evidence for affirmative answers to all those questions was strong. But was Mitchell's intent always to protect the President (if the President had asked him, Hundley suggested, Mitchell "probably would have confessed to murder"), and if so, would that make his actions seem excusable to the jury...