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Sears was called to the stand by federal prosecutors, who are attempting to prove that Mitchell, once Nixon's top political strategist, and Stans, who raised the money that made the campaigns purr, had struck the sleaziest of bargains with a notorious financial manipulator, Robert Vesco. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Vesco was the central figure in perpetrating a $224 million stock fraud, the largest single case in SEC history. In its case against Mitchell and Stans, the Government argues that Vesco made a secret, illegal contribution of $200,000 in cash to the President...
...Pocket. Vesco was also named in the 46-page indictment, which charged the defendants with conspiracy, obstructing justice and perjury, but he is a fugitive living in Costa Rica. The fourth man named was Sears himself, but he has been granted full immunity in return for testifying as a witness for the prosecution...
...Senate Watergate committee or the grand jury. Last week Mitchell also went on trial in a New York federal court on six counts of perjury. He and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are accused of attempting to intervene with the Securities and Exchange Commission to help Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco evade a massive fraud investigation in return for a secret $200,000 contribution to Nixon's 1972 campaign...
Criminal activity relating to the Watergate scandal reaches beyond the seven Nixon aides indicted last week. It embraces accusations involving illegal campaign contributions by Financier Robert L. Vesco and perjury charges against Milk-Industry Lobbyist Jake Jacobsen. In addition, nine corporations have been fined for making illegal campaign donations. But most damaging for the President is the large number of his aides and agents who have already been to court. Before the latest indictments, 18 men with connections to the White House or the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had been indicted or convicted or had pleaded...
...operators, and he has shown a knack for it that would be worthy of the fictional Inspector Maigret, another unprepossessing sleuth. He was active in or headed the SEC investigations that led to charges being filed against such celebrated operators as Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert. Louis Wolfson, Robert Vesco and Bernard Cornfeld.*When tremendous pressure was brought on the SEC to allow Cornfeld to sell mutual funds in the U.S., Pollack said no-and likely saved countless millions for American investors...