Word: voloshen
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...defeated by the voters. Anderson was the first to report that California Republican George Murphy remained on the Technicolor Inc. payroll while serving in the Senate; Murphy lost the next election. The columnist also dug up many of the facts in the case of the late Washington Fixer Nathan Voloshen and Martin Sweig, aide to then House Speaker John McCormack, who used McCormack's office for profitable influence peddling. Voloshen and Sweig were convicted of perjury. More recently Anderson branded Pennsylvania Congressman J. Irving Whalley a "backcountry Bobby Baker," accusing the seven-term Republican of taking kickbacks and padding...
Died. Nathan Voloshen, 73, the Washington fixer who turned the office of former Speaker of the House John McCormack into an influence-peddler's paradise; in Manhattan. When indicted in 1970, Voloshen initially denied that he had illegally used his longtime friendship with the Speaker to obtain favors for clients. The dapper door opener, a Maryland attorney with New York offices, later pleaded guilty to a slew of offenses, all committed without McCormack's knowledge. Among the transgressions: lobbying to obtain reduced sentences for convicted racketeers. Because he cooperated with authorities, Voloshen was given a suspended sentence...
...first time he had done so. As a constituent, Frenkil had received the help of Maryland Representatives in an earlier dispute with the AOC. Now, feeling the need for a more powerful political persuader, he turned to Nathan Voloshen, 72, a friend of House Speaker John McCormack, and hired him as counsel for a fee of $28,000. Voloshen, who has pleaded guilty to influence-peddling charges in another case, earned his money. During 1967 and 1968 he met regularly with Frenkil's firm and representatives of the AOC to press Frenkil's claims. Once, according...
...before it dissolves this week, but Beall has made it clear that he plans to continue his investigation. "I would like very much to hit pay dirt on this thing," he says. Beall might do just that if the Government is successful in its present efforts to persuade Nathan Voloshen to talk about what he did for Frenkil...
...best test of McCormack's durability came last fall when a senior aide, Martin Sweig, and a longtime friend. Nathan Voloshen, enmeshed the Speaker's office in an influence-peddling scandal. McCormack, under heavy criticism outside the House, insisted that he would run again both for his seat and for the Speakership. He immediately began soliciting support and got more than enough pledges to assure continued power...