Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Higgins there were at least two tragedies in the affair precipitated by the over-zealousness of Sirica, the Ervin committee and journalists. The case against John Connally hinged on the testimony of one man, Jake Jacobsen, and would never have been brought to court in normal times. Even more regrettable was the conviction for perjury of Attorney General Kleindienst, who actually threatened to resign when asked by Nixon to interfere with the ITT case, but denied to Sen Edward Kennedy's committee that such a request had ever been made...
...about eighteen when my great uncle Jake took the dinner hours to describe how he and a new partner had bought a street of slum houses in downtown New York He. Jake, during a lunch break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode...
...Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and a multimillionaire-had accepted a relatively modest $10,000 gratuity from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., for urging Nixon to boost federal milk price supports in 1971. To back up that charge, the Government relied on testimony by Attorney Jake Jacobsen. When seven charges of fraud against him in a Texas savings and loan scandal were dropped, he had agreed to testify against Connally and to plead guilty to one count of offering a gratuity to a public official...
...time the trial began three weeks ago, the government's case was crumbling. Their star witness was Connally's old friend Jake Jacobsen, a former lobbyist for the Associated Milk Producers, who said he gave Connally $10,000 in 1972 in exchange for Connally's support for raising the floor on milk prices. But Jacobsen had only agreed to testify against Connally when prosecutors offered to drop several more serious charges against him in an unrelated bank fraud case. The prosecution had no one to directly corroborate Jacobsen's story--he and Connally were alone when the money changed hands...
Striding back and forth across the Washington courtroom, lacing his low, even voice at ripe moments with sarcasm and incredulity, Defense Counsel Edward Bennett Williams bored away at the witness in 5½ relentless hours of crossexamination. The target of Williams' searching volley of questions was Attorney Jake Jacobsen, principal accuser of Williams' distinguished client: John B. Connally, 58, three times Governor of Texas and former Secretary of the Treasury. Connally stands charged with accepting a $10,000 gratuity from Jacobsen as a payoff for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk price supports...