Word: sabo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected to the House were Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Ronald Dellums of California, Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Rangel of New York and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, along with Republicans Jack Kemp of New York, Tom Railsback of Illinois and William Steiger of Wisconsin. Minnesota Democrat Martin Sabo was elected to the House...
Shortly after Sabo won renomination in the May 1976 primary, he discovered a black box under the fender of his patrol car. It turned out to be a sophisticated $2,800 radio transmitter, a tracking device. That night, as Sabo kept watch, a shadowy figure crept up to the patrol car. When the interloper reached under the fender. Sabo jumped out and arrested one Gary Morgan, an OCI investigator and the man Cooksey had utilized for pre-election snooping into Sabo's background...
Morgan was promptly fired. OCI directors claimed he was acting "individually and without the authority or consent" of the intelligence unit when he planted the LEAA-funded device on Sabo. Morgan did not suffer: he quickly landed a job as investigator for Friedman's law firm and was subsequently appointed probation officer, another LEAA-created job. dispensed by local judges...
...that reflected, he said, 440 hours of work, equivalent to 3% months of full-time work. He continued to receive his full $26,100 annual district attorney's salary, of course, which helped pay for a $38,000 private airplane and a private deer-hunting lodge. Sabo, incidentally, once caught Cooksey using jail inmates to paint his house, but nothing came...
...internecine warfare, the only possible winners are local criminals, including the shadowy Dixie Mafia. Sheriff Sabo, for his part, admits to a mild case of paranoia. "I spend more time looking over my shoulder than I do peering in front of me," he says softly. "Maybe 1 should apply for an LEAA grant to buy a device that detects the devices they're buying with I.EAA grants...