Word: obstructionism
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If the quotes are accurate, Nixon is not only divulging his own culpability in initiating the bugging but is also expressing a clear intent to keep the FBI from learning about it. Thus the seeds of an obstruction of justice have been planted even before the celebrated June 23 "smoking...
¶His efforts in 1972 to enable a chain of California trade schools to retain its accreditation with the U.S. Office of Education and thus continue to qualify for federal funds. Flood's former administrative assistant, Stephen Elko, admitted receiving a $15,000 kickback from the schools, and was...
The Justice Department probers promptly announced that Bell and Carter were cleared of any charge of obstruction of justice in the affair. But the Republican partisans on Capitol Hill had no intention of letting the Administration off so easily. Thundered Utah's Orrin Hatch: "That two-day whitewash [the...
Now the timing is even worse. Marston has endeared himself to Philadelphians by being the first prosecutor in recent years to hit political corruption hard. In May, Marston got the state speaker of the house, Herbert Fineman. convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving influence peddling to help...
There was just one problem. The cash rolled in but it did not roll out. While the United Fund was sending 92% of its total receipts to member charitable agencies, the Pallottines were sending as little as 2.5% of their enormous income on to the missions. No one yet knows...