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...House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years in prison for his part in the wiretapping, talked in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence from Federal Judge John J. Sirica. The judge agreed to postpone sentencing until after McCord finishes talking to the Senate committee and to a federal grand jury in Washington that is considering further indictments...
...Watergate, McCord was the chief security coordinator for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Last week McCord, who had been convicted of wiretapping and burglary, appeared in a Washington federal district court with six similarly convicted conspirators to face sentencing. But Judge John J. Sirica dramatically delayed the procedure to read a remarkable letter that he had received from McCord...
...Judge Sirica, who had been openly scornful of the Government's failure to find out precisely who had inspired the Watergate operation, its basic purpose and the source of the secret funds that financed it, agreed to meet with McCord later. McCord had asked to see the judge privately to detail the general charges made in his letter, explaining that he did not "feel confident in talking with an FBI agent, in testifying before a grand jury whose U.S. attorneys work for the Department of Justice, or with other Government representatives." Sirica ruled that any testimony by McCord must...
Lost. The determined Sirica then agreed not to sentence McCord until after he has heard everything that McCord has to say this week-a clear hint that full cooperation could lead to a more lenient sentence. That was McCord's main motive in writing. Cannily, Sirica gave five of the other defendants ample reason to tell more about the Watergate affair by temporarily assigning them maximum sentences but promising to review those sentences after three months. He even held out the possibility of suspended sentences. The maximum sentences, up to 40 years in prison and $50,000 fines, were...
...Judge Sirica further underscored just how serious a crime he considered the Watergate espionage to be by sentencing the seventh conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, who, like McCord, had pleaded innocent, to serve up to 20 years in prison and to pay a $40,000 fine. Liddy, who had worked with Hunt in the White House in trying to detect sources of news leaks, apparently got the stiff sentence-and no provision for its review-because he has not shown any sign that he could be persuaded to disclose more about the case. The Watergate crimes, said Sirica in sentencing, were...