Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
...Drug Buster. Last week Governor Thomas Salmon was contemplating an extraordinary letter from Francis Murray, the Chittenden County (Burlington) prosecutor, asking him to pardon all 600 of those convicted on Lawrence's testimony. Lawrence, the prosecutor pointed out, faced up to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of turning in false arrest affidavits and giving false information to a police officer. The big drug buster apparently arrested anyone he was suspicious of, often supplying the narcotics evidence himself and claiming he had made a buy from the alleged pusher. Judges, and in a few cases even juries...
...presidential misdeeds in the era of Watergate, none was easier to understand and harder to swallow than the fact that Richard Nixon cheated on his income taxes. Because of Ford's pardon, Nixon is beyond the 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...
...these are powerful men with a lot of powerful friends," he added. "Mitchell is a friend of Rockefeller. It's not inconceivable that if Ford decides not to run again, or runs and loses, he might pardon Mitchell and the rest...
...mail. As each letter of rejection comes. In, I attach for to the master copy of my letter of inquiry and move to the appropriate, file. The faceless letters pile up and my own fact floats in the air before me, record my body temperature daily and keep pardon copies of my letters to friends...