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...from the bench to serve a couple of terms as Nevada's Lieutenant Governor, "Big Juice," as he is known, now operates as a big-time gambler. This week, beating all the odds, he will celebrate the sixth anniversary of his indictment for perjury in the Bobby Baker payoff case. Baker, who was indicted along with Jones on Jan. 5, 1966, has been tried, convicted, jailed and recently denied a parole. Big Juice has so far avoided going to trial at all. No court date is even in sight...
...informer for the Government, and agents sent him to meet Jones with a small radio transmitter strapped to his body. After listening to tapes of their conversation, a Washington grand jury concluded that "Jones was trying to teach Bromley his perjured story." When Jones denied knowledge of the Baker payoff, he was indicted for perjury...
Bringing these riches to the outside world is another matter, and in most cases the payoff is years away. Freeport Indonesia Inc., a subsidiary of U.S.-owned Freeport Minerals Co., must finish a 70-mile highway over rugged mountains and through jungle-choked valleys before it can begin exporting ore from its Ertsberg mining site in 1973. P.T. International Nickel Indonesia, a subsidiary of International Nickel Co., of Canada, last June reported finding "significant" nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi but does not expect to begin production before 1975. By then it will have constructed a $200 million mine...
...career within the department. After once booking a man who had got into a fight, Phillips said that another cop asked him to forget the whole thing for $300. Phillips obliged. When he was promoted to plainclothesman, after three years on the force, he was given a $1,000 payoff on his first day on the job. His partners gave him some fatherly advice: "You're new here and it would look good for you if you gave the boss a piece of the action." So Phillips handed over the $1,000 to a lieutenant in the station house...
...only hitch was that the guard, who claimed to have been offered a $43,300 payoff by the conspirators, had secretly informed the military police. When the conspirators parked the rented Volkswagen outside the prison walls at 3 a.m., three military Jeeps swooped down, and out piled a score of machine-gun-brandishing soldiers who arrested them. Lady Fleming, who had in the meantime gone for a drive in the country, was picked up at 5:40 a.m., when she returned home...