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...prosecute the now retired ambassador at all or, at the opposite extreme, to charge him with two felony counts of perjury, each carrying a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine. The department took a middle course, charging the 64-year-old Helms with two misdemeanor counts of failing to answer senatorial questions "fully, completely and accurately." The penalty on each count is 30 days to a year in jail and a fine...
Civiletti told the judge the misdemeanor no-contest plea was "fair and just...
...RESOLUTION of the Richard Helms case has furnished new evidence that the "national security" red herring is alive and well in the corridors of Washington these days, the moral of the Watergate parable notwithstanding. Allowing the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director to plead nolo contendre to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to Congress may have proven the most expeditious way of wrapping up the two-year-old investigation of Helms, but the circumstances surrounding the plea-bargain arrangement and its announcement has raised serious questions about the Justice Department's modus operandi that will ensure...
...announced that the department had seen fit to work out a very special deal with the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As Helms and his renowned attorney Edward Bennett Williams walked into a federal district courtroom last Monday to file a nolo contendere plea to two misdemeanor counts against Helms for failing to testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just and fair disposition" of the case. Confronted with a virtual fait accompli, Carter hastily gave Bell his consent, and the four-year-old Helms...
Last week Mark Rudd surfaced in New York as mysteriously as he had disappeared. After surrendering to authorities, he was arraigned on four misdemeanor charges. Asked Judge Milton Williams: "Where have you been this past seven years?" Said Rudd's attorney, Gerald Lefcourt: "He hasn't made any statements to the district attorney's office. He doesn't intend to do so here." Next day he flew to Chicago, where he was arraigned on four misdemeanor charges, again refused to talk and was released on $4,000 bail pending trial...