Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, and I can understand it, say 'Gee whiz, it just isn't fair, you know, for an individual to, ah, get off with a pardon simply because he happens to have been President, and when another individual goes to trial, and maybe had to serve a prison sentence for it.' I can understand how they feel. I can only say that ... no one can know how it feels to resign the presidency of the United States. Is that punishment enough? Oh, probably not. But, whether it is or isn't, we have to live with...
...convictions of John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman-or of former Attorney General John Mitchell. All three had been convicted on Jan. 1, 1975 of a total of 14 felonies for their roles in the Watergate coverup, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury. They were sentenced to prison terms of from 30 months to eight years, with no possibility of parole for 2½ years...
...could be only a matter of weeks before Haldeman and Mitchell go to jail. Ehrlichman has been convicted besides of conspiracy and perjury in the illegal plumbers' operation, and began serving a 20-month to eight-year sentence on those charges last October, at Arizona's Federal Prison Camp at Safford. Last week his Washington attorney said his client would not make further appeals on the new decision. Lawyers for Mitchell and Haldeman said they would ask the Supreme Court for a rehearing; only two such petitions have been granted of the last 700 or so to come...
...Debts. If the request for a rehearing comes to naught, Mitchell will be the first U.S. Attorney General ever to serve a prison term. A friend of his told TIME that Mitchell had gone on hoping for a presidential pardon until last November, when Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. Mitchell has some investment income but is no longer allowed to practice law (he once earned $250,000 annually as a municipal bond lawyer), and friends say he is burdened by enormous debts...
...ousting was the conviction of DiCarlo, 41, and Republican State Senator Ronald MacKenzie on charges of squeezing $40,000 from a New York consulting firm in exchange for suppressing a legislative report criticizing the company's work on state construction contracts. DiCarlo, who faces a year in prison and a $5,000 fine, is free on bail pending an appeal...