Word: tousignaut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the indictment, Harold Tousignaut not only held three town jobs (police chief, building inspector, road supervisor) paying $600 a month, but also netted $8,000 a year by leasing police cars to the village. Chief Tousignaut ordered each of his four policemen to drive 100 miles a day at 10? a mile, payable to himself. As for duties, the cops had only one-writing enough tickets to pay their salaries plus the town's other expenses. Any charge would do, including violation of nonexistent town ordinances...
...this violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of persons, charged the grand jury. Indeed, 300 mulcted motorists filed complaints last week. Unable to find "language or words severe enough to criticize this kind of operation," the jury says it also failed to find fitting felony charges for Buchler and Tousignaut, though it searched law books going back to 1606. Both men will be arraigned on relatively minor misdemeanor charges ranging from simulating judicial process to conspiracy to illegally exercise office. Maximum sentences if convicted: 13 months in jail and $1,100 in fines, plus an additional $200 fine for "Magistrate...
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