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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges: accepting a $10,000 gratuity for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk-price supports in 1971. Three times Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, Connally looked tense last week at what may be the last big trial handled by the Watergate special prosecutor's staff...
Footprint Trail. In his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men (including nine blacks), Prosecutor Jon A. Sale charged that Connally had not only accepted but had actually solicited the money from Lawyer Jake Jacobsen, who was a go-between for the Associated Milk Producers Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative. The evidence, claimed Sale, would show that the money "left a trail of footprints ... to Mr. Connally." The prosecution has documented its case with bank records and logs of meetings and phone calls between Jacobsen and his old pal Connally...
...October 1973, Jacobsen went on, when the pair learned that Lilly had told the special prosecutor's office of the payola, they concocted a story that Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally for political candidates but that he had turned it down and the cash had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box at an Austin bank. To make good their story, Jacobsen told the court, Connally gave him $10,000, handing it over in a cigar box. Jacobsen said that he then deposited the money in the Austin safe-deposit...
...fill. Representatives of the Six Nations Indian "family" occupied one row in the spectators gallery. Sketch artists and television reporters craned for a better view. Defense Attorneys Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler and their young convict clients sat at an L-shaped table scarcely five feet from Chief Prosecutor Louis Aidala. Sheriffs' deputies and bailiffs stood poised to quell any disturbance. Outside, as many as 400 pickets marched in chilling rain and snow round the gray granite edifice...
...prosecutor could not be reached comment last night