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...staff is still investigating whether ITT improperly influenced the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission. His office is also continuing its inquiry of possible perjury by ITT executives and former federal officials in the case. Last month former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Nixon ordered him not to appeal an antitrust court decision favoring ITT. He asks only that he have two olives in his martinis at the end of his 16-hour days and that when he arrives at an event...
...later Richard Kleindienst, 50, the former U.S. Attorney General, pleaded guilty to the charge of a misdemeanor stemming from his confirmation hearings, which were conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In effect Kleindienst admitted that he had not been completely candid when he testified that as Deputy Attorney General, he had not been pressured by the White House to drop an antitrust case against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which was to pledge up to $400,000 to the G.O.P. In fact, the President himself had given Kleindienst such an order (which Kleindienst refused to carry out), saying...
...convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism." White's colleagues defended him from that innuendo. They pointed out that though he spent last summer covering the closing of Navy bases in New England, among other places, he visited San Diego and Washington, D.C., where he cultivated a number...
...Justice Department's settlement of its antitrust suit against ITT. He later revealed that Nixon himself had phoned him and asked him not to carry the case against ITT to the Supreme Court. Apparently, Jaworski's staff prosecutors are willing to let Kleindienst plead guilty to a misdemeanor rather than a felony, giving him a better chance to avoid disbarment...
...only ten recorders, or judges; they rated a notch higher and exercised slightly more authority than the average metropolitan police magistrate. Some of them sat only four hours a day, leaving plenty of time for drinking. Collectively, they bumbled through a mere 130 felony trials a year, plus uncounted misdemeanor cases. With the crime explosion of the late '60s, the backlog grew to 5,422 felonies. A person charged with a felony waited an average of 4½ months to enter a plea, and the average time from arraignment to judgment was 13½ months...