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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...
There was a time when they were familiar figures around official Washington; but neither Dr. Martin Sweig nor Attorney Nathan Voloshen has been seen around much lately. Sweig, administrative assistant to House Speaker John W. McCormack for 24 years, was suspended from his $36,000 job after he was linked with the shadowy, 71-year-old Voloshen in an investigation of high-level influence peddling. Voloshen went quietly underground...
Special Favors. The charges stem from a seven-month investigation during which more than 100 witnesses were heard and a deposition taken from McCormack himself. Sweig and Voloshen are accused of improperly using the office, telephone, secretarial staff and good will of Speaker McCormack to secure fees, some as high as $50,000, from people with matters pending before various Government agencies. According to the indictments, Sweig and Voloshen used the power and prestige of McCormack's office to seek reduced sentences for convicted racketeers, to try to persuade the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift the suspension...
Handed up earlier in the week by a federal grand jury, the Sweig-Voloshen indictments were a fitting climax to the nine-year career of U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who left office last week after objecting unsuccessfully to the Nixon Administration's attempt to relieve him of his job. Now the case may become a source of embarrassment to Morgenthau's successor, Republican Whitney North Seymour. Continuing investigations into Voloshen's actions in another matter could involve some prominent members of the G.O.P...
...association with McCormack, TIME Correspondent Sandy Smith last week reported: - Voloshen has been close to McCormack for at least 24 years. Last week McCormack said that he had been introduced to Voloshen by an unremembered Congressman "some years ago, more than ten years ago, maybe more than that." Sweig has said privately: "Voloshen was here when I came in"-and that was in 1945. An even closer associate of McCormack's recalls that "the Speaker looked upon Nat Voloshen as his friend and as a member of his family-his political family...