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...provided the witness is not based on any explicit constitutional provision. The court has not, in other words, extended the scope of the privilege against self-incrimination or expanded the concept of free speech. It has simply held that the recalcitrant witness may not be convicted of contempt when the government fails to establish affirmatively that the question which he failed to answer was "pertinent to the question under inquiry." In the Bowers case the application of this principle meant that a defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could not be convicted of contempt for his refusal to state what...
...less importance than the court's insistence that the government, in the contempt proceedings, has the burden of proving pertinence, is the explicit statement that the witness's failure to assign lack of pertinence as his reason for refusing to answer the questions did not bar him from raising that issue in the contempt proceedings. "The answer to such a suggestion," said the court, "is that the right to refuse to answer a question which is not pertinent is not a personal privilege, such as the right to refrain from self-crimination, which is waived if not seasonably asserted...
...some investigating and had said it was for Roosevelt. When sub committee members demanded to be told just what kind of job it was, Grunewald balked again: "I don't think the President would want it [told]." The subcommittee wearily pondered whether Grunewald, already convicted of contempt of Congress, was in contempt again...
Manhattan court reporters saw a familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...
...trainers to China in 1938). In 1946 the United Mine Workers paid him a big fee (at one point Grunewald thought it was $15,000-$16,000, later had it down to $5,250) to investigate Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who was soon to preside over a contempt of court case against U.M.W. Grunewald said his friend from New Hampshire, Senator Styles Bridges, steered him into the Goldsborough job. (Bridges denied...