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...Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's close friend, is under investigation concerning the $50,000 that he allegedly gave to Fred LaRue, a Nixon re-election committee aide, in 1973. Investigators suspect that half the amount may have gone into a "hush money" fund for the Watergate burglars...
...aides and agents have pleaded guilty or been convicted in the scandals known collectively as Watergate. The criminal acts involve the break-ins and bugging at Democratic national headquarters in Washington, the subsequent coverup, various acts of sabotage against the Democrats in the 1972 presidential campaign, secret payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Richard Nixon's federal tax return claims and perjury in connection with the investigation into a possible connection between the settlement of antitrust suits against the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. and its pledges...
...Veniste got Colson to rebut Haldeman's testimony that he was unaware of hush-money payments. In January 1973, Colson said, he had been asked by Haldeman what would happen if Hunt "blew" (talked to investigators). "I said I thought it would be very bad... Bob [Haldeman] said, 'Then we can't let that happen.' " When Colson was finished, Chief Prosecutor James Neal told Sirica in a lawyers' conference that he was "more than willing" for the defense to "bring on more witnesses like Colson...
...termed his conduct of Liddy's 1973 trial "in the highest tradition of his office as a federal judge," made it clear that he does not believe this version. With the jury out of the room, he admonished Kalmbach: "You knew . . . that this money was being used to hush up these people who had been arrested." Kalmbach insisted that he had not. After listening to the Nixon tapes, it seems inconceivable that the jury could miss the real intent of the payments...
...PAYING HUSH MONEY...