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...more than two months, draft indictments naming U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Otto Kerner and several of his former top aides have been waiting approval by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell for submission to a grand jury. Until recently, Kerner had an impeccable reputation. He was Democratic Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 and won national prominence as chairman of a presidential commission investigating urban rioting. Now, if Mitchell decides to prosecute him and a grand jury concurs, Kerner could be indicted for bribery, extortion and income tax fraud. The charges stem from sizable profits he reaped from race...
Letter of Intent. In 1968 a routine audit of Kerner's tax return revealed that he had listed income from the sale of stock in a firm he called the "Chicago Company." Further investigation showed the firm was in fact Chicago Thoroughbred Enterprises, Inc. (C.T.E.), whose principal shareholder at the time was Mrs. Marjorie Everett, once known as the "queen of horse racing" in Illinois. C.T.E. owned Washington Park and Arlington Park, two race tracks near Chicago. Their suspicions aroused, Internal Revenue men checked the return of Theodore Isaacs, a Kerner crony and Illinois revenue director, who also...
AMERICAN NOTES The Cities Revisited More than three years after the Kerner Commission analyzed the causes of the great urban riots of the 1960s, the racial ghettos of the U.S. are more than ever an environment of decay, distrust and despair. That is the conclusion of a report, "The State of the Cities." issued by a commission of the National Urban Coalition...
...also was a consultant to the Kerner Commission on methods for making local government more responsive and accountable...
...Otto Kerner, LL.D., judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, chairman of the 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders...