Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach of the law, but those who abetted him are not. Edward Morgan, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration, is serving a four-month jail term for his part in the fraud. Last week Frank DeMarco, 49, a Los Angeles tax attorney, and Ralph Newman, 63, a Chicago appraiser, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington for their role in the affair. If convicted, De-Marco faces a maximum 15-year sentence and $25,000 in fines; Newman could get eight years and a $15,000 fine...
...Archives. The trouble was that the White House had never got around to donating the papers formally, and Congress had passed a law prohibiting tax deductions for that kind of gift made after July 25, 1969. Nevertheless, DeMarco, who was Nixon's tax attorney, got in touch with Newman, a well-known appraiser of historical papers, in late March and asked him to select papers for deeding to the U.S. in a hurry...
...Newman, in turn, phoned Mary Livingston, an employee at the Archives, where the papers were stored, and persuaded her to do the choosing for him. Then, sight unseen, he signed an affidavit certifying the collection. The deed granting the papers was back-dated...
...might have proved useful to historians was missing. Gone, for example, were files of correspondence with Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Earl Warren, House Speaker Sam Ray burn and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Some boxes were filled with nothing but newspaper clippings. Newman proved to be an accurate prophet when he once wrote about his profession: "I assure you that there isn't any dodge that some sharp mind in the Internal Revenue Service hasn't heard about. The day of reckoning is drawing closer. When it comes...
Right-to-lifers are moving against abortion on other legal fronts. In Boston, for example, the anti-abortion movement has obtained indictments against three Boston researchers who used tissue from dead fetuses for research. The chief prosecutor in the Edelin trial, Newman Flanagan, now plans to turn his full attention to the case pending against the three. Activists in Long Island's Nassau County have prompted inquiries by both local and federal prosecutors into allegations that aborted live fetuses were allowed to die in the county medical center. Last week the center turned over to the district attorney...