Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Guernsey has been arrested four times in the past year, he said, but will continue to lobby for his cause. "It's not fun going without food for 25 days, and it's not fun sitting on a steel cot in a D.C. jail, but it's not fun sleeping on a park bench or living in a shelter, either. So I'll continue to do this...
...Dukakis demonstrators apparently had a similar idea in mind, so two lines of opponents marched towards each other, the Bush side chanting "Keep the killers in jail, vote for Bush and Quayle," while Students for Dukakis '88 shouted "We like Mike...
...checkered as it was successful. During his 1945 mayoral campaign, Curley was under indictment for mail fraud, based on a $60,000 favor he had done while in Congress. Curley won the election, was convicted of the charges and drew his mayoral salary for five months while in jail. When he was released in 1947, the people of Boston greeted him with a band and motorcade--suitable for the man who said "Politics and holiness are not always synonomous...
...least 11 officials in the Barry Administration, two of them deputy mayors, have been indicted and convicted since Barry was first elected in 1978. His ex-wife went to jail in 1983 for embezzling federal funds while she and Barry ran a youth training program...
Another woman who had been a close associate of Barry's went to jail for dealing cocaine and later admitted before a grand jury that the mayor paid her $25,000 to deny that he had been a buyer. Barry himself has been the target of two federal investigations centering on influence-peddling and the misuse of city contracts, has illegally used city funds for his family's personal expenses, and had to be thrown out of the house of a young model he had been harrassing...