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Like fishermen who come back emptyhanded, prosecutors and police endlessly complain about the ones who got away. Especially galling are those who escape because of legal rules: drug pushers caught dirty but without the proper search warrant, Mafiosi discovered through an illegal wiretap, thugs with guns whose car was stopped by cops acting without probable cause. In such cases, the catchall-or lose-all-complication is the exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence seized illegally may not be used in court...
Died. Joseph R. ("Yellow Kid") Weil, 100, confidence man extraordinary and regular jailhouse boarder; in Chicago. Weil donned gentleman's garb and artfully flimflammed hundreds of marks, including horseplayers who fell for his phony wiretap schemes for beating the odds, lovers of exotic pets who bought his talking dogs only to learn that they had been "stricken" with laryngitis, and one detective who was finessed into buying $30,000 in "stock" from convicted Swindler Weil while escorting him to prison. The secret of his success? "Each of my victims had larceny in his heart," explained the master of hanky...
...civil suit stems from charges that the FBI placed a wiretap on Halperin's home telephone for over 21 months between 1969 and 1971. Thirteen other government officials and four journalists were also reportedly placed under surveillance...
Based on seven months of staff investigation, the Senate report offers a bit of bitter justice to Richard Nixon. Among the Watergate revelations that undid him were his Administration's use of the FBI to wiretap Administration officials and newsmen, and his forestalling, for a time, the FBI investigation of the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters. The Senate committee reports that precedents for abuse of the agency were firmly established by Hoover under Democrats F.D.R., L.B.J. and J.F.K. Some of the examples of improprieties...
...page document left no doubt that Nixon would have been indicted after his resignation for various crimes, notably the cover-up of White House involvement in the wiretap-burglary. He was saved only by President Ford's pardon...