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...catch many of the gangsters and corrupt lawyers exposed in the IRE series. Joseph C. Bonanno, Sr., identified by the press as a top-ranking Mafia boss who specializes in narcotics, is a free man in Tucson, despite several arrests for offenses including grand larceny and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Dozens of smaller-time criminals continue to elude conviction in Arizona, despite coverage of their activities in the local and national media...
...about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam Farmer Lynn Martin, the tactic "will give us a war chest." But how long or how effectively it will obstruct the dam, he can only guess. Perhaps only until the next flood...
...immunity from further prosecution?that implicated Flood and Eilberg. Yet by all accounts, this information did not travel up the department hierarchy in time to warn Bell and Carter away from the urgings of Eilberg, whose telephone conversation with the President could be construed as an effort to obstruct justice...
...likely to know more about the full Watergate story. One, of course, is Nixon, who last year denied once again in the Frost interviews that he had had any knowledge of how or why the Watergate bugging began or had participated in any criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. The other man who might know more than Haldeman is Charles Colson, Nixon's former special counsel and now a "born again" social worker, who is portrayed in Haldeman's book as the President's uncontrollable "hit man" and a devious conspirator who pushed the Watergate burglars into their...
...political patronage has existed and been practiced by successive administrations for many years. But his embarassment over playing the established rules of the game led to a cover-up that transformed the local case into a national headliner. He became suspect to the charge of possible collusion to obstruct justice. All because he lied. He had promised in the campaign to select attorneys on the basis of merit, not politics. Once in Washington, however, he found the promise too hard to keep; he owed too many favors. In Philadelphia it was the Rizzocrats who had helped him defeat Gerald Ford...