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...game." He once told a courtroom: "The cops say I've been picked up 15, maybe 17 times. That's junk. It was 150 times. I been worked over for nothing until my hat sits on my head like it belongs on a midget." Someone in 1961 overheard him trying to shake down a Brooklyn restaurant owner for a share of the profits. The proprietor asked for time to think about it. "Sure," said Gallo, "take three months in the hospital...
...case at issue derives from the bombing of a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1968. The Government charged three members of a left-wing group called the White Panthers, but the principal suspect, Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, learned that federal agents had overheard some of his telephone conversations. Plamondon, a onetime sandalmaker and co-founder of the Panthers, demanded to know what evidence the Government had acquired from the tap. Government lawyers refused to tell...
...warrant, because warrants are not necessary in cases involving a threat to "national security." This is true not only for the traditional danger from a foreign power, the Justice Department maintains, but also for the security threat posed by the current radical protest movement. Besides, the Government said, the overheard conversations had nothing to do with the bombing charges, and the tap was on the phone of another organization, not the White Panthers...
...Federal District Judge Damon J. Keith, who was presiding over the Plamondon pretrial hearing. Keith rejected the Government's arguments. He ruled that according to an earlier Supreme Court decision, if the Government wanted to prosecute Plamondon, it would have to tell him what it had overheard so that no illegally obtained evidence would be used against...
...march from the Place de la Bastille to the Hôtel de Ville. Had the Premier, who has been a deputy, mayor of Bordeaux, minister of the Fourth and Fifth Republics and speaker of the National Assembly, now become a liability to his party? Gaullist Deputy Jacques Richard overheard a shopgirl remark, as she paid her taxes, "Ah, if only I could manage things like Chaban." "That," said Richard, "is when I realized how serious the situation...