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Having spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate, Louisiana's Russell Long last week announced that he will retire when his current term ends in 1987. Son of the "Kingfish," Huey P. Long, Louisiana's legendary populist Governor and Senator, "Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later...
...Louisiana politics are, well, different. When a Federal official declared at a national Governors conference a few years ago that "it's not part of my job to lie to people," Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards cracked: "It's a very big part of mine." During his race against then Governor David Treen in 1983, he joked that his opponent seemed worried that Edwards, if elected, might loot the Governor's mansion. Quipped Edwards: "If we don't get Treen out of office soon, there won't be any money left to steal." Louisianians hooted and elected Edwards with...
...mail fraud. U.S. Attorney John Volz charged that Edwards and six associates, including a brother, Marion, and a nephew, had conspired to create 15 health corporations and to illegally acquire state certification that the companies, which existed only on paper, were needed to meet legitimate health needs in Louisiana. The companies would therefore be entitled to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funds to reimburse them for capital expenditures. After gaining these certificates, the indictment alleges, Edwards and his co-conspirators sold the corporations to those interested in constructing health-care facilities. These operators paid more than $1 million for each...
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