Word: mardian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly Breslin is not an objective reporter, and he doesn't pretend to be. He is as vicious to the Bad Guys as he is sympathetic to the Good. He describes Mardian as the type of man who "in the prize-fighting business, they used to call a mutt." And as he is about to begin the story, Breslin gets a little maudlin...
...penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
...tense 54-minute proceedings in Sirica's Washington courtroom, a lighter sentence of ten months to three years went to Robert Mardian, once a top aide to Mitchell at both the Justice Department and the Nixon 1972 re-election committee. Tight-lipped but known to be seething about the fact that he had been linked in trial with the top three, Mardian bolted through a rear door when the session ended. He will return to his family's construction business in Phoenix while he and the others await the result of their appeals. This process could take...
JUDGE JOHN J. SIRICA'S lenient sentences last Saturday for John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Robert Mardian show that two and a half years after the Watergate break-in, justice is still a long way off. Giving three of the most powerful men in the Nixon administration no fines, and only 30 months in jail--less if they exemplify "good behavior"--constitutes, in comparison to their crimes, little more than a slap on the wrist...
Mitchell, former attorney general and a vociferous hardliner on law and order, deserves more than two and a half years simply for the immense hypocrisy of his sense of justice. Mardian is a lawyer, too, and he should be given stronger punishment for the same betrayal of justice. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, former chief advisors in the White House, both deserve to be tried, along with Nixon, for possible collusion in, or at least prior knowledge of, crimes related to the war in Vietnam, the coup in Chile, administration impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, and CIA domestic spying...