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Less than a week after Attorney General John Mitchell had promised "a massive indictment" of New Jersey public officials, Addonizio and nine present or former Newark city officeholders were charged by a federal grand jury with extortion and income tax violations. The ten officials plus five other men, including a reputed Mafia member named Anthony ("Tony Boy") Boiardo, were indicted for extorting $253,500 from Constrad, Inc., an engineering firm that did business with the city. The charge carries penalties of $10,000 and 20 years in prison. The 15 were also accused of failing to report their payoffs, ranging...
State law provides for the removal from public office of officials who refuse to testify before grand juries looking into governmental affairs. But it allows them to take the Fifth Amendment when questioned on criminal matters- as did Addonizio. Nor do the state's laws require the removal of officials who are under indictment...
...what finally happens, Mitchell risks being the loser. Justice Department officials complain that Morgenthau is independent and uncooperative, but he has been an immensely effective law officer. In seeking his removal, the Attorney General, an outspoken advocate of law and order, invites accusations that he is placing politics above public welfare...
...Debate. As the trial period nears its end, a nationwide debate has gone on over whether or not to make the abolition permanent. Police and prison officers lobbied for a return to hanging. Most Britons seemed to side with them; polls showed that as many as 84% of the public were in favor of bringing back the hangman. One dissenter was Albert Pierrepoint, the retired public executioner, who had hanged some 450 persons in his day. "I have very strong personal feelings about this," he told the tabloid Sun. "I hope Jim Callaghan gets...
...Home Secretary Callaghan who led the fight against hanging in the House of Commons last week. "There are times when Parliament has to act in advance of public opinion and give a lead," he said. He pointed out that before 1965, the actual number of executions in Britain had averaged only two a year-hardly enough to affect "the credibility of law and order." Most Laborites favored abolition of the death penalty, and many Tories opposed it. But in the balloting, numerous Tories, including Opposition Leader Ted Heath, voted with the majority. By 343 to 185, the Commons voted...