Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the jury foreman announced the verdict, "Not guilty," the former Democratic candidate for Vice President broke into tears. Geraldine Ferraro's husband John Zaccaro was cleared last week of charges that he solicited a bribe from a cable-television company seeking a franchise in Queens, N.Y. Acquittal was assured when the key witness against Zaccaro refused to implicate him in a bribe attempt...
...witness, Richard Flynn, a lawyer for Cablevision Systems Corp., did testify that Zaccaro told him in 1981, "It's going to cost you money" to get the contract. Flynn said he interpreted the statement not as an extortion attempt, however, but as a warning "about a process that was corrupt...
Outside the courtroom, Ferraro blasted prosecutors for bringing an "empty political indictment." Ferraro, whose family has endured numerous investigations since she was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984, faces yet another legal hurdle: her son John Zaccaro Jr. is charged with selling cocaine at Middlebury College in Vermont...
...said. Now Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, may soon have her name cleared. Justice Department spokesmen disclosed last week that the investigation is all but complete and that Ferraro will apparently be cleared of any wrongdoing. The probe has concentrated on allegations that her husband John Zaccaro made illegal contributions to her first congressional campaign, in 1978, and that Ferraro acted improperly when she failed to report on her husband's business dealings in a financial-disclosure statement she made as a Congresswoman...
...abstention solely to a 16-month-old Justice Department investigation into her financial background. The probe is focused on the funding of her initial 1978 House race and some of her financial disclosure statements while in office. In 1979 the Federal Election Commission fined her husband-campaign manager John Zaccaro and her committee $750 for arranging $130,000 in loans from her family, well in excess of the $1,000 legal limit allowed for individual contributors. The House Ethics Committee, which looked into Ferraro's failure to report fully her and her husband's incomes, found that she had committed...