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Despite the fact that Reynolds by his own testimony is a pretty shady character, he produced some impressive documents to support his story: 1) an invoice in the amount of $109,000 sent to McCloskey by Reynolds, 2) a check for $109,000 sent to Reynolds by the McCloskey company, and 3) a bill for only $64,000, the performance-bond premium minus Reynolds' regular $10,000 commission, sent to Reynolds by the insurance company for which he was agent...
Somebody Goofed. McCloskey, who testified later, agreed that the $35,000 had gone somewhere, and that Reynolds had indeed been overpaid. But, he said, it was only because "somebody in our organization goofed." Company officials, he insisted, believed that Reynolds' bill was for both a performance bond and general liability insurance, erroneously sent him a check large enough to cover both. "We make goofs like that every once in a while," he said. As for the $35,000, said McCloskey, "we have plans to recoup it. That's for sure...
That left it all pretty much a case of Reynolds' word against McCloskey's. And as far as Bobby Baker was concerned, that was how it would stay. Appearing under subpoena before the committee last week, Baker invoked not only the Fifth Amendment, but the First, Fourth and Sixth, refusing to answer more than 40 Rules Committee questions...
...member of the committee, was unwilling to let it go at that. His reluctance set off a shouting match. Williams said he had offered Committee Counsel Lennox McLendon, a back-home crony of Committee Chairman Everett Jordan's, Democrat of North Carolina, a "rather complete file" on various McCloskey contracts. McLendon, he said, had brushed the offer aside, saying he wasn't interested. Roared McLendon: "Senator, you're absolutely and unalterably untrue in your statement . . . You ought to at least tell the truth." Later Williams, still burning, cried to the committee: "I've had my integrity...
...investigation was reactivated last October to study the charge by Senator Williams (R-Del.) that builder Matthew McCloskey, a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, made an illegal $25,000 campaign contribution in 1960 through Baker. It adjourned after five days of hearings began again. But Chairman Jordan has limited testimony to the McCloskey affair. He has refused once again to probe directly Baker's dealings with Senators...