Word: rodberg
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Later in the week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider an argument that Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) and his aide Leonard S. Rodberg are immune from outside inquiry by the same grand jury, thus renewing the possibility that they may also be resubpoenaed to testify...
...Supreme Court refused to reconsider Gravel's argument that he and his aide. Leonard S. Rodberg, have Congressional immunity from outside inquiry. The decision made both men subject to subpoena in the Boston Grand Jury's investigation of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers...
Gravel, through Rodberg, negotiated the publication of the papers with Beacon Press. The government had tried to compel Rodberg's testimony concerning how Gravel obtained a copy of the papers. When Gravel argued for Rodberg's immunity from subpoena. The ensuing legal light caused the probe to be suspended...
...looks as if they are taking seriously that Senator Gravel, his associates, and I are legitimately entitled to legislative immunity," Rodberg said...
Gravel's lawyers had requested the right to preview any questions that Rodberg or Webber might be asked by the grand jury. They contended that Gravel's legislative immunity, providing that he may not be called to account for any act performed as senator, might be endangered through the questioning of his associates...