Word: sec
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Beginning about July 14, 1972, Dean testified, he made eight to twelve phone calls at Mitchell's behest to William J. Casey, then the chairman of the SEC. Dean said that he passed along his mentor's complaints that the SEC was using unfair and harassing tactics against Financier Robert Vesco. The Government has charged that on April 10, 1972, Vesco made a secret contribution of $200,000 to Nixon's 1972 campaign, and that in return Mitchell and Stans tried to hinder an SEC investigation into Vesco's alleged massive looting of Investors Overseas Services...
Bill Casey went far to undercut the Government's main case against both. The two men are charged with taking a secret $200,000 cash contribution for Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign from Financier Robert Vesco and, in return, trying to hinder an SEC investigation into his dealings with some overseas mutual funds...
Casey did testify that Mitchell phoned him in December 1971 or January 1972 to ask if the SEC staff was unfairly harassing Vesco. But Casey said that he had received a number of complaints about how the SEC was handling the Vesco case. What was more, Mitchell's call came several months before Vesco made his campaign contribution...
Campaign Smear. The Government has charged that Mitchell induced John Dean, then President Nixon's counsel, to contact Casey before the 1972 election and ask him to postpone some SEC subpoenas served on some of Vesco's employees. Casey acknowledged that he got a request from Dean on Nov. 2, 1972 -five days before the election. Dean, he said, wanted the testimony of the employees to be delayed until after the election, lest their appearances before a grand jury somehow be used as a "last-minute campaign smear." But, Casey added, Dean did not say that Mitchell...
...boss's contribution to the Nixon campaign. He testified about attending a meeting with Vesco on March 8, 1972, in Stans' Washington office. According to Richardson, Vesco told Stans that he wanted to make a donation to the Nixon campaign but that he had a problem -the SEC investigation. Vesco claimed that the probe was really an SEC vendetta against him and his company...