Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the new D.A.'s ethics. First, local papers reported that after his election and before taking office, Fitzpatrick had held a victory cocktail party. Many of the lawyers who might well have future clients in trouble with the D.A. paid $50 a head to attend the fund raiser. "These parties are given all the time," says Fitzpatrick, who does not deny that the money collected went to him. The state supreme court's disciplinary board is investigating...
...Special Prosecutor's still open agenda is the case of Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and chief campaign fund raiser. He has been plea bargaining with the prosecutors, seeking to plead guilty to one or more misdemeanor charges of violating campaign-contribution laws. The prosecutors want him to plead guilty to a felony. If no agreement is reached, an indictment is expected. Also facing probable indictment is Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's millionaire Miami friend. Although it is entering its final phase, the Watergate scandal is far from over...
Robert F. Duncan '12, a fund-raiser for Harvard and other private institutions for over 65 years, died Friday in Chicago...
...idea that Nixon would be advised in advance of every improper act. Citing the dirty campaign tricks of Donald Segretti, Danielson asked: "Do you suppose that he... called the President and said, 'Mr. President, I am now about to order 400 pizzas for Mr. Muskie's fund-raiser'? That is unrealistic." It is enough, Danielson contended, to show that an act was set in motion by general presidential direction or policy...
Special Account. The report contains some fascinating details about Rebozo's role as a part-time political fund raiser. In February 1969, according to a White House memorandum, Nixon asked Rebozo to solicit Billionaire J. Paul Getty in London for "major" campaign contributions-only a few months after he had completed his victorious campaign for the presidency. Getty subsequently contributed $125,000 to the 1972 Republican campaign. In early 1969, Rebozo established a special account in his Key Biscayne bank to pay for what he described as "Administration-connected costs"; this was the account from which the "earring" funds...