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...Fear. McCord's letter also said that "members of my family have expressed fear for my life if I disclose knowledge of the facts in this matter, either publicly or to any Government representative." McCord wrote that he did not feel all that endangered but thought "retaliatory measures will be taken against me, my family and my friends, should I disclose such facts...
Judge Sirica, who had been openly scornful of the Government's failure to find out precisely who had inspired the Watergate operation, its basic purpose and the source of the secret funds that financed it, agreed to meet with McCord later. McCord had asked to see the judge privately to detail the general charges made in his letter, explaining that he did not "feel confident in talking with an FBI agent, in testifying before a grand jury whose U.S. attorneys work for the Department of Justice, or with other Government representatives." Sirica ruled that any testimony by McCord must...
Lost. The determined Sirica then agreed not to sentence McCord until after he has heard everything that McCord has to say this week-a clear hint that full cooperation could lead to a more lenient sentence. That was McCord's main motive in writing. Cannily, Sirica gave five of the other defendants ample reason to tell more about the Watergate affair by temporarily assigning them maximum sentences but promising to review those sentences after three months. He even held out the possibility of suspended sentences. The maximum sentences, up to 40 years in prison and $50,000 fines, were...
Judge Sirica further underscored just how serious a crime he considered the Watergate espionage to be by sentencing the seventh conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, who, like McCord, had pleaded innocent, to serve up to 20 years in prison and to pay a $40,000 fine. Liddy, who had worked with Hunt in the White House in trying to detect sources of news leaks, apparently got the stiff sentence-and no provision for its review-because he has not shown any sign that he could be persuaded to disclose more about the case. The Watergate crimes, said Sirica in sentencing, were...
...question was just how much McCord or any of the other convicted conspirators really know about the origins and implications of the affair. The Watergate operation has been linked by FBI and other investigators with up to $1,000,000 in cash kept in a safe in the office of Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and head of his re-election finance committee. Much of this money, gathered secretly from donors who did not wish to be identified publicly, was earmarked for vague "security" or "intelligence" purposes. Some of it was sent through Mexico to shield...