Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EDWARD L. MORGAN, 36, Assistant Treasury Secretary. Pleaded guilty to illegally backdating the deed giving Nixon's vice-presidential papers to the Government; sentenced to four months in prison and 20 months' probation.
HARRY S. DENT, 44, Nixon's special counsel and political adviser, who devised the 1970 "southern strategy." Pleaded guilty to working with an illegal fund-raising committee called "Operation Townhouse" that distributed money to 1970 congressional candidates; sentenced to one month's probation.
EUGENIO R. MARTINEZ, 51, another of the Watergate burglars. Pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping; released on parole after serving four months of a one-to-four-year sentence. Pleaded guilty to similar charges in the Ellsberg burglary; sentenced to three years' probation.
After denials and clarifications, it developed that Fitzpatrick had actually represented a co-defendant of Nardello's in an extortion trial. When an appeal bearing the names of both defendants went to the Supreme Court, it was Fitzpatrick who argued the case. But he insists, "I have never represented...
No Cover-Up. Then Fitzpatrick switched his story again. He had granted probation, he said, because of a plea-bargaining arrangement made by the previous administration. That did it, Sprague says. "I knew he was lying. My choice was either to be honest and tell the truth or keep my...