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Shortly before 9 a.m. one day last week, an expensively dressed gentleman slipped into Brooklyn federal court through a back door. Hands clasped behind him, he stood before Judge Charles Sifton and softly recited his crimes. Then, after pleading guilty, Democratic Congressman Frederick Richmond of Brooklyn agreed to resign immediately from the House of Representatives and not seek reelection to a fifth term...
...seemingly inevitable end for a politician whose life had gone badly awry. Richmond's woes had been attracting tabloid headlines for years. In 1978 he was arrested in Washington for sexually soliciting a 16-year-old delivery boy. In spite of that, he handily won re-election that year and again in 1980. Last January, however, the Justice Department, acting on a federal civil suit that revealed financial improprieties with the Walco National Corp. of New York, which Richmond controlled, began an investigation of the Congressman. Last week Rich mond, 58, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, possessing marijuana cigarettes...
...charges might have been a good deal worse for the Congressman, multimillionaire founder of Walco, maker of products ranging from motors to coffins. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute Richmond for an array of other possible crimes, including ordering his staff to buy him cocaine, receiving an ille gal $100,000 annual pension from Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested...
Harry Seigler, on trial in Richmond for robbery and murder, was sitting in a courthouse jail cell one afternoon last week, awaiting the jury's verdict. Charged with robbing a local insurance salesman last December and then slashing his throat, Seigler, 30, had pleaded not guilty...
...prisoner persuaded his family not to intervene, but Attorney J. Gray Lawrence, whom Coppola had fired, filed an appeal anyway. It was rejected by a federal district court judge. But with 8½ hours to go, Judge John Butzner of the U.S. court of appeals in Richmond called a halt, saying that the years on death row might have robbed Coppola of the capacity to decide the question and noting that a constitutional review of Virginia's death penalty was pending in another case. Governor Charles Robb ordered an immediate appeal. Two state attorneys flew to Washington...