Word: pleads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enthusiasm for any legislation granting him immunity from prosecution if he were to leave office. "This matter should take its course," Mansfield said, meaning a full Senate impeachment trial. "We should not have another Agnew situation," he added-a reference to the Vice President's being allowed to plead nolo contendere to income tax evasion, then to resign and be granted immunity from further federal prosecution...
...board of embalmers and funeral directors, a board of cosmetology, as well as both a savings and loan commission and a division of savings and loans supervision and seven often overlapping agencies that deal with clean water. When members of the redundant committees would go to Washington to plead for appropriations or testify on bills, they sometimes presented opposing testimony. "We had no clout in Washington because the Federal Government didn't know what the hell Missouri wanted," says Bond...
False Testimony. The President at his press conference praised some of his former top aides for refusing in the past to use "the shield of the Fifth Amendment as they could have and plead self-incrimination." They had testified "freely," he said, and they had not sought immunity or engaged in "plea bargaining" with prosecutors. Actually, Colson had declared that he would take the Fifth Amendment if called before the Senate Watergate committee. Ehrlichman's lawyers did plea bargain but rejected Jaworski's final offer. Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell may have testified freely, but according to the grand...
...began in 1971 to nose into Vesco's operations abroad. Sears said that he tried for months to persuade his old political friend John Mitchell to help Vesco get access to William Casey, then the SEC chairman, so that the financier could plead his case in person. Mitchell appeared sympathetic, but nothing happened, though Sears pointed out that Vesco had made a substantial contribution to Nixon's 1968 election campaign and that "he represented himself as being close to the Nixon family...
...Negron case is typical of what I can do as a "power politician." By supporting Beame in the primary and general election, I am able to get quick results for the people of the South Bronx on housing and other matters. If doing that is "criminal," I must plead guilty. But I don't think the people in the South Bronx believe that what I do is wrong. Through "the dean of the political bosses Patrick J. Cunningham," I have gotten jobs for over 20 poor Puerto Ricans. If this makes Patrick J. Cunningham evil, don't tell...