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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wife Vonna Jo bought a $300,000 home in the Pensacola suburb of Gulf Breeze, with a miniature merry-go-round for their six-year-old daughter. They cruised aboard a 45-ft. yacht, owned two Cadillacs and a Stutz Black Hawk, and threw splendiferous parties...
Gregory had another passion: politics. By his own account, he and his wife gave a total of $108,522.08 to political campaigns between 1974 and 1977. Among recipients: Governors George Wallace of Alabama and Reubin Askew of Florida. Gregory claimed that he and Vonna Jo gave some $40,000 since 1974 to Jimmy Carter's campaign fund and to the Democratic Party, and he also credited himself with raising some $250,000 elsewhere for the Democrats. Because of this feat he was made a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee's finance council...
...loan to Robert Stapleton was "substandard"; they initially wrote off the loan to Institutional Development Corp. as a "loss," but it was later repaid. Gregory's bank in Macon County closed in January. Another bank, in Wilcox County, Ala., closed in March. On Good Friday, Gregory and Vonna Jo were indicted on Alabama felony charges that they accepted deposits at a bank that was about to be closed...
...five senior ministers who were not in the previous government scarcely qualified as fresh. The new Minister of Industry, for example, is André Giraud, 53, who has been chief of France's Atomic Energy Commission since 1970. Transportation Minister Joël Le Theule, 48, held a ministerial post under De Gaulle, while Culture and Communications Minister Jean-Philippe Lecat, 42, was a familiar figure at the Elysee Palace as Giscard's spokesman...
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