Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While campaigning last week, the Democrats treated the sleaze factor more gingerly than might have been expected, perhaps because they did not want to revive the controversy over the personal finances of Geraldine Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro. Mondale allowed that "there has been a tacky element to the Administration" but said that he did not want to appear "pious" because other Administrations, including Democratic ones, had also suffered because of the peccadilloes of their officials. He was likewise restrained about Vice President George Bush, who revealed last week that he had been forced...
...clear that there is no illegal sleeze here. In fact, throughout the entire ordeal, illegal sleaziness was rarely, if ever, mentioned. But there is no denying that visions of such accusations were at least thought about. Legal sleaze, on the other hand, was suspected in some of Mr. Zaccaro's business affairs, in particular when he borrowed money from an estate as its executor. However, any possibility of guilt was neatly cleared away when a court order forced him to repay the money, and when he was removed as executor of the estate. The long-range result, however, was that...
...Although Zaccaro is not running for office, is it possible that he is guilty of legal sleaze? Can his wife be sleazified by "sleaze through association?" Is there sleaze in everyone's closet...
...incensed over the treatment of Ferraro and her husband. What John Zaccaro owns and how much money he makes are nobody's business. He is not running for public office...
...petty campaign blunders, the distracting debate over religious issues and the lingering doubts about his running mate's financial affairs. The House Ethics Committee announced that it would investigate whether Geraldine Ferraro, as a Congresswoman, had improperly claimed an exemption from disclosing the finances of her husband John Zaccaro. The committee had no choice politically except to proceed with a probe, once the conservative Washington Legal Foundation had formally challenged Ferraro's right to the exemption. Its investigation, which probably will not be completed before Congress adjourns Oct. 4, does not necessarily mean Ferraro did anything wrong...