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From the first, the family of Samuel Bronfman II figured on a guilty verdict for the two men accused of kidnaping the young Seagram liquor heir. Anything less would be a slap at Sam and them-a judgment that the "victim" had really masterminded the crime for the $2.3 million ransom. Late last week, as 120 people crowded the White Plains, N.Y., courtroom, the jury filed back after 19 hours and 30 minutes of deliberation and delivered a stunning decision: not guilty of kidnaping...
...Including Sam's father. Edgar, chairman of Seagram who had just returned from Washington. DC where with 14 other business leaders, he had conferred with President-elect Jimmy Carter
...trial probing the kidnaping of Seagram Liquor Heir Samuel Bronfman II neared an end last week, the case remained almost as mysterious as it was sensational. Since the trial began in October in White Plains, N.Y., the Bronfman jury has had to weigh two conflicting stories about the kidnaping. Sam Bronfman, 23, testified that two men snatched him and later threatened to kill him unless his rich father, Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman, paid a $2.3 million ransom...
...telling the truth? Bronfman's story had the virtue of being straightforward: the Seagram heir testified that a man he did not know grabbed him on a humid August night last year as he was parking his car at his mother's estate in Purchase, N.Y. Later, his captors sent his father first a ransom letter then tape recordings made by Bronfman relaying impassioned pleas for payment. Eventually, the elder Bronfman took two plastic bags containing $2.3 million in cash to a deserted street in New York City's borough of Queens. A day later, police found...
Carter scores best with those businessmen who meet him face to face. Last week three Carter supporters-Henry Ford, who does not identify himself with either party, and Democrats Edgar Bronfman, chairman of Seagram Co., and J. Paul Austin, chairman of Coca-Cola-threw a meet-Jimmy lunch at Manhattan's "21" Club-and invited 49 of their colleagues. Carter assured the assembled executives that he favors "a minimum of interference of the Federal Government in free enterprise," and stressed his receptivity to criticism and advice. He also said he "would not do anything to minimize" the investment activities...