Word: maragon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...
...John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions...