Word: mayock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayock hustled off to Washington and had a personal chat with Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Six weeks later, after Snyder prodded his underlings, Lasdon got a favorable ruling and Mayock got $65,000 cash. He split $35,000 of it among himself, Markus and Solomon, took the promised $30,000 to Louis Johnson, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, then chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee. "I went to the Democratic National Committee and unloaded it on Louis Johnson's desk," Mayock testified...
...said, 'Judge, this is magnificent.' It was, too." But a few minutes later, Johnson sent his secretary running down the corridor after the departing Mayock: Johnson had recalled that the Hatch Act barred individual political contributions of more than...
...Mayock got around that obstacle by simply handing several acquaintances (including Markus and Solomon) cash in exchange for checks made out to the Democratic National Committee. That was, he admitted last week, a "close violation" of the Hatch...
Special Speed-Up. When Markus and Solomon appeared before the subcommittee, they admitted arranging a meeting between Mayock and Lasdon, but they flatly denied getting cut in on the fee. The astonished subcommittee promptly asked the Justice and Treasury Departments to find out which of the three witnesses had committed perjury and which of them had cheated on his 1948 income...
...more important was the implication that the Democratic National Committee had made a direct profit out of Secretary Snyder's intervention. Snyder said last week that he had merely wanted to "speed up" a settlement one way or the other, and "never suspected" that $30,000 of Mayock's fee would go to the party coffers. But Mayock said that his contact with Snyder was "political." And a former BIR official testified that in sending down the special ruling, General Counsel Charles Oliphant (a headliner in Tax Scandals of 1951-52) wrote on the document: "This approval applies...