Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman Catholics in both houses, mostly from urban and suburban areas, aided by like-minded rural legislators. Working together, the two groups represent a formidable constituency: Pennsylvania has four million Catholic residents and the highest rural population in the nation. The Governor also reckoned without State Representative Martin P. Mullen, 51, an archconservative Philadelphia Catholic, veteran of ten two-year terms and the head of the powerful house appropriations committee...
...Mullen meanwhile had left Kusper's office on the pretext that he had to be with a sick father in Wisconsin. Kusper finally called the newsman's apartment to inquire about the father's health and got Mullen's roommate who knew he was on a secret mission but was unaware of the ruse. Mullen was at work, said the roommate. Kusper: "Where?" Roommate: "At the Tribune." Kusper...
Sponsored by a Republican acquaintance of Bliss, Mullen applied for the job under his own name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first...
...Mullen's mission was a closely held secret, known only to top Trib editors and the U.S. Attorney, who already had an election-fraud investigation going. His cover was nearly blown one day when a Trib colleague happened into the commissioners' office. "I dived into the files," Mullen recalls...
Forgery. By day, Mullen methodically collected evidence. Each night he took a roundabout route to the Tribune Tower a mile away and recorded his findings in a carefully guarded book. Twice he was followed by board employees, but they concluded that he was going there only to meet a girl friend. After three months, Mullen had gathered enough documentation...