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...June primary ballot. However, his backers will also circulate nominating petitions, the procedure that others without the blessing of the party must follow to get on the ballot. Though some of the opposition may drop out, Goldberg's major competition for the nomination currently includes Robert Morgenthau, the former U.S. Attorney in New York; Eugene Nickerson, Nassau county executive; and Howard Samuels, millionaire industrialist and former Under Secretary of Commerce...
...bill will aid Government investigators in tracing the often devious routes by which money goes abroad and returns anonymously to the U.S. Robert M. Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney for the New York area, asserts that some Swiss bank accounts are used to deposit the profits of heroin trafficking. Less often recognized is the dubious or downright illegal use of Swiss bank accounts by seemingly respectable businessmen...
...most persistent advocate of disclosure laws has been Morgenthau, who was abruptly fired by the Nixon Administration last December and replaced by a Republican. Democrat Morgenthau is now a deputy mayor of New York -and still convinced that his probing into bank records of foreign accounts "was making the Administration extremely nervous." Before he was fired, Morgenthau had persuaded federal grand juries to indict 75 persons for financial crimes involving secret bank accounts, and had referred dozens of other cases to the Internal Revenue Service. The cases demonstrate a variety of ways in which U.S. businessmen put their Swiss connections...
...Morgenthau's investigations raise serious questions about the ethical role of U.S. banks as conduits for illegal dealings. For instance, says Morgenthau, "the facilities of a California bank and a Midwestern bank were used, under circumstances that should have aroused suspicion, to transfer from an American company to a Swiss bank funds that were being used to pay kickbacks to employees of N.C.O. and officers' clubs overseas." One of the New York banks that Morgenthau was investigating was Manufacturers Hanover Trust, whose Wall Street branch handled millions skimmed from Saigon's black market in recent years...
...presumed innocent unless and until they are convicted, Speaker McCormack has thus far declined comment on the plight of his former assistant and friend. He has also strongly denied knowledge of the pair's activities or any wrongdoing on his own part, and has received support from Morgenthau, who took care last week to emphasize that the Speaker was not a subject of his recent investigation. Still, McCormack feels that his image has been tarnished and plans to seek vindication through re-election as a Congressman and as Speaker...