Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the last two weeks, serious ethical and legal charges have been leveled at Lt. Col. Oliver North, President Bush and House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas). If these allegations prove true, these people will have to be punished...
Some legal authorities have already called for prosecution according to the letter of the law. If North, Bush and Wright are guilty, these wimps argue they should be sent to jail. Never mind that "jail" would probably be some cushy condominium near a golf course where the "criminals" could write their memoirs and make millions. Never mind that J. Danforth Quayle would wind up president of the United States...
Other matters before the committee were more clear cut. The panel voted unanimously that there was reason to believe Wright failed to report as gifts the use of a car and Fort Worth condominium he and his wife received from Mallick. Committee members voted 10-2 that Mrs Wright's $18,000-a-year salary from a Mallick-Wright company should also be characterized as a gift, saying she did little or nothing to earn the money...
...panel also voted 10-2 that certain bulk sales of Wright's book, Reflections of a Public Man appeared to have been used to evade House ceilings on outside earned income...
...committee's view, seven bulk sales of Rep. Wright's book... demonstrated an overall scheme to evade the House outside earned income limit because [speaking] honorarium payments were recharacterized as royalties," Dixon said...