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...Customs. According to Caulfield's secret testimony to the Senate Watergate committee, Acree told him how tax audits could be initiated by writing anonymous letters to the IRS. Acree followed such a procedure himself, according to Caulfield, in 1971 when the White House wanted a tax investigation made of Newsday Editor Robert Greene, who had written a series of articles exposing some financial dealings of C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's closest friend. Greene was audited by New York State tax authorities after New York and IRS officials had exchanged information...
Allbritton is known to be casting around for someone to succeed Newbold Noyes, 55, the Star-News' editor since 1963. Bill Moyers, former L.B.J. press secretary and a onetime publisher of Long Island's Newsday, is one of several possibilities. As for politics, Allbritton says only that his paper will be "objective and fair." Yet a me-too editorial stance would hardly help the Star-News gain much ground against the liberal Post; its best strategy may be to present itself as a strong conservative alternative. One thing seems certain: Allbritton plans a vigorous personal role...
...when James McCord's letter to Judge Sirica was made public. The McCord letter, among other things, confirmed that pressure had been brought to bear on the original defendants to keep silent. It was the most concrete evidence up to that point that a cover-up had been attempted. Newsday might have broken some of the same information months earlier because it had access to another of the burglars, Frank Sturgis. Recalls Publisher William Attwood: "He was ready to talk if we had pushed him and if we had come up with money in five figures." Attwood now regrets keenly...
...Muckrakers. Another prize for national reporting went to Washington Star-News Reporter James R. Polk, 36, whose series on the financing of Nixon's 1972 campaign broke the story of Financier Robert Vesco's secret $200,000 contribution. A massive series by Long Island's Newsday, tracing heroin from Turkish poppy fields to New York streets, won a gold medal for meritorious public service. New York Daily News Reporter William Sherman, 27, was awarded a Pulitzer in special local reporting for a 14-part series on doctors' abuses of the Medicaid program...
...Newsday says that when the tax returns of Editor David Laventhol and Investigative Reporter Robert Greene were audited by New York State, the two men were told individually that it was being done at the request of the Federal Government. Publisher William Attwood is not aware that his returns have been audited...