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...give the producers an extra $300 million a year in income. Acting as a middleman in the producers' dealings with the White House in 1971, Connally, the indictment charges, was personally rewarded with two contributions of $5,000 each, which were brought to him by Old Friend Jake Jacobsen, a Texas attorney who was representing the milkmen...
When the scandal began to be uncovered in 1973, Connally, according to the indictment, decided to cook up an alibi with Jacobsen: the pair agreed to testify under oath that although Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally, the Treasury chief had refused to take it. Whereupon, the story went, Jacobsen put the cash in a safe-deposit box in a bank in Austin. To make the alibi stick, the prosecution believes, Connally gave Jacobsen $10,000 out of his own pocket to place...
...been made, Connally is believed to have hastily replaced it with another batch of bills. Once again, he apparently slipped up. Though these bills were dated prior to the deposit, some of them had not been put into circulation until several months later. Thus investigators concluded that Connally and Jacobsen were lying. Confronted with the evidence, Jacobsen pleaded guilty to one count of perjury and started talking...
...case against Connally, however, does not rest on Jacobsen's testimony alone. Other witnesses have been lined up. Last week Harold Nelson, former general manager of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest milk cooperative, pleaded guilty to a charge that he had conspired to bribe Connally. In the information filed against Nelson, several other officials of milk co operatives were named as unindicted coconspirators. Some are likely to testify against Connally under immunity...
...Jacobsen may begin to plea bargain with the special prosecutors and start talking. What Jacobsen has to say could well doom any of Connally's lingering ambitions for the presidency, unless Connally can exonerate himself. Speaking in Maine last week, Connally again denied that he had accepted the cash campaign contribution, but ruefully acknowledged that the speech might be his last "for a while...