Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard pole-vaulter Blayne Heckel also performed some exciting acrobatics, racking up first place with a 15 ft. 6 in. vault, and coming back to take third place in the long jump...
...register in one of his Las Vegas casinos. But most of the bills in question were issued in the early '50s and were too tattered and scruffy to be used by a gambling house. The committee feels that it is more likely that they came from the storage vault of a bank...
...deserving congressional candidates. In his testimony to the grand jury, Jacobsen said that he offered it to Connally, but his fellow Texan refused to take it. Much like the $100,000 campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Bebe Rebozo, the cash was reputedly placed by Jacobsen in a vault in a bank-an Austin bank that happened to be controlled by Jacobsen. There it sat, unwanted and unused, he testified, from mid-1971 until November 1973, when the FBI examined it. Connally told much the same story to the grand jury...
...jury was not buying. In February, it indicted Jacobsen for perjury. The bills, investigators discovered, could not possibly have been placed in the vault in mid-1971. Their serial numbers indicated that they had been issued prior to that date, but they had not, in fact, been put into circulation until many months later. Someone had blundered...
...after helping to get the milk subsidies increased, and another $5,000 in March 1972. It is not known what Connally did with the money, but in November 1973, when the milk-fund investigation spread, he returned the entire amount to Jacobsen, who replaced it in the vault. When Jacobsen was called before the grand jury, he agreed to let the FBI inspect...