Word: sweig
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...cocky, he graduated from Columbia Law School and then took an advanced degree in law at Northwestern University before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in his native New York. He prosecuted several union kickback cases and also the perjury, bribery and conspiracy charges resulting in the conviction of Martin Sweig, onetime aide to former House Speaker John W. McCormack...
...Board. Yes, said the board, to parole applications from 1) Bobby Baker, 43, the onetime protégéof Lyndon B. Johnson who has served 15 months of a one-to-three-year sentence for theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government; 2) Dr. Martin Sweig, 50, an assistant to former House Speaker John W. McCormack who has served nine months of a 43-month sentence for perjury, bribery and conspiracy in procuring military discharges; 3) Anthony De Angelis, 56, who has served seven years of a 20-year sentence for his $150 million financial swindle...
...voters. Anderson was the first to report that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling. Voloshen and Sweig were convicted of perjury. More recently Anderson branded Pennsylvania Congressman J. Irving Whalley a "backcountry Bobby Baker," accusing the seven-term Republican of taking kickbacks and padding his payroll. Whalley...
...best test of McCormack's durability came last fall when a senior aide, Martin Sweig, and a longtime friend. Nathan Voloshen, enmeshed the Speaker's office in an influence-peddling scandal. McCormack, under heavy criticism outside the House, insisted that he would run again both for his seat and for the Speakership. He immediately began soliciting support and got more than enough pledges to assure continued power...
Last Fall the Speaker's aide, Martin Sweig, was charged with attempting to influence the Securities and Exchange Commission in favor of a California firm with which he was associated. McCormack placed Sweig on a leave of absence without pay peading an investigation of the charges. The charges against his trusted aide reportedly weighed heavily on McCormack...