Word: tongsun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee was far less energetic in opening hearings on California Democrat Edward Roybal, one of four Congressmen accused of taking illegal payments from Korean Rice Dealer Tongsun Park. Roybal has given the committee two highly damaging sworn depositions about the matter. In one he denied ever receiving money from Park. When that proved false, he said in the second statement that he turned the $1,000 over to his campaign director for election expenses. Roybal actually pocketed the cash, investigators claim. If so, he too could be expelled from the House on the recommendation of the ethics committee. If such...
Sneider said his experiences with the Tongsun Park affair convinced him that foreign service officers cannot ignore the impact of domestic politics on diplomacy...
...someone to ferret out the facts." Last week Jaworski decided to end his probe, with more questions unanswered than answered. The results are skimpy: four Congressmen facing disciplinary action, one former House member in jail and another former member facing trial for accepting gifts from Rice Dealer Tongsun Park...
After 22 months of investigating Korean Rice Broker Tongsun Park's influence peddling on Capitol Hill from 1967 to 1976, the House Ethics Committee last week took the first step toward punishing sitting Congressmen for wrongdoing.* It voted to begin disciplinary proceedings against four Democrats...
...finances, even though the need for a strong code was underscored last week by the sentencing of former Democratic Representative Richard Hanna of California to jail for six to 30 months for conspiring to defraud the U.S. He was accused of accepting more than $200,000 from Rice Broker Tongsun Park as part of Park's effort to buy congressional support for South Korea...