Word: ruff
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Further, Watergate Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff, who is investigating Ford's use of his congressional campaign money, last week brought a witness to testify before a Washington grand jury. The witness was Jesse Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, one of the two maritime unions that contributed to Ford's campaign funds when he was a Congressman but more recently broke with...
...Ford's problems, Republicans in Washington were particularly depressed over the whiff of possible scandal in his handling of campaign finances as a Congressman. Earlier this year, acting on the orders of Special Prosecutor Ruff, teams of FBI agents had combed through Ford's campaign financial records in Grand Rapids from 1964 through the present time, and reportedly found nothing. But last week, an informer in Washington slipped a confidential and highly sensitive document to two pairs of investigative reporters: the Wall...
...friendly Congressmen, including Ford during the 1960s when he was House minority leader. The witness said that he paid the money to an intermediary, who turned it over to legislators; the intermediary denies it. Attorney General Edward Levi told TIME: "The department has found no substantiation for the charges ... Ruff is aware of them." An IRS report on the investigation was sent to Justice Department officials just as Ford became Vice President in 1973, but they discounted it because of the low credibility of the informer. Ruff began to probe into the matter after he was tipped to the existence...
...still looking into a mysterious allegation by an unidentified informer that Ford had misused union contributions to his congressional campaigns some time between 1964 and 1972. Ford's position was awkward. No charge had been brought against him, so he could not even inquire of Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff about the investigation without implying improper presidential pressure...
...Informant. Almost no one in Washington believed that Jerry Ford would ever pocket campaign funds. Yet neither would anyone accuse the highly respected Ruff, a Democrat, of acting rashly or for partisan purposes. A polio-paralyzed associate law professor at Georgetown University, Ruff, 37, belonged to the staff that dug into illegal corporate political contributions during Watergate and brought Richard Nixon's top aides to trial. He also successfully prosecuted United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle for illegal campaign contributions...