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...John McFall, 60, of California, majority whip from 1973 to 1977, for not reporting to the House clerk $4,000 in contributions from Park and for making personal use of the funds...
...undisclosed amounts to Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey and Otto Passman of Louisiana. The wife of Edwin Edwards, then a Congressman and now Governor of Louisiana, got $10,000. Other contributions included $4,650 to John Brademas of Indiana, deputy House Democratic leader, and $4,000 to John McFall of California...
...colleagues. Third-ranked was Texas' Jim Wright, 53, who started his political career as an avowed liberal but has evolved into a conservative on many issues. Like O'Neill, Wright has few declared foes. Fourth and last in the race book was California's John J. McFall, 48, who had compounded the error of taking "gifts" from South Korea's Tongsun Park by denying, untruthfully, that he had done...
...McFall was the inevitable fall guy on the first ballot: Burton 106, Boiling 81, Wright 77, McFall 31. With McFall gone under the low-man-out rule, there was speculation that if Burton and Wright beat out Boiling on the second ballot, Burton would win the runoff -since Boiling's supporters would not throw their ballots to the conservative Texan. If Burton and Boiling were the survivors, Boiling would win, since Wright's backers would not vote for the liberal Californian. There were rumors that on the second ballot some of Burton's supporters threw their votes...
...JOHN McFALL, 58, of California, a respected but quiet legislator who for four years has been the majority whip, a post that would normally put him in line for the leader's job. Though O'Neill probably favors McFall, an easy man to get along with, the Californian's prospects have been seriously damaged by news that he received $4,000 from Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman...