Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Edelin said that he is personally worried that he could lose his license or be sent to jail. "A lot of innocent people have been hung," he said. "And I don't want...
...votes against him, the certainty of his impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, Nixon withdrew; he admitted no real wrong but cited only his loss of a "political base" in Congress. In the wreckage of his Administration, 16 of his aides and other operatives went to jail; John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, once three of the most powerful men in the nation, spent the fall shuttling to the Washington courtroom where they were on trial for conspiracy...
...business that provided a "front" for a lucrative swag mart that soon was fencing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of hot goods a year-virtually unimpeded by the police. In more than 30 years as a fence, Swaggi, 60, has spent only eight months in jail. His secret: camouflage illegitimate activities with a legitimate business and challenge the police and courts to prove he is knowingly dealing in stolen goods. For example, a thief sells him some suits. "How you [the rightful owner] gonna know they're yours?" asks Swaggi. "I got Botanys, you got Bota...
...ward since the beginning of his illness. To his friends there-an old woman with no larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves out of the hospital in a laundry cart-and then of course returned to Ewing Eight. He fell in love with a young nurse, and during...
...Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This wonderful country is still the only place on earth where the boldest dreams can come true," exulted Reddy, who later celebrated by singing two concerts for women prisoners in a local jail...