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...stretch at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, the place probably had the bluest-ribbon prisoners' committee ever seen behind U.S. bars. Hoffa organized it informally to hear and act on complaints. It included, according to him, L.B.J.'s former aide, Bobby Baker, serving one to three years for theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government, and Tammany Leader, Carmine DeSapio, who went to Lewisburg last year for two years on three counts of bribery, as well as a former Army colonel, several businessmen and a Ph.D. Recalls Hoffa: "We were very active. We'd write memos...
...that, he had to move his wife and seven dogs from Las Vegas, which he loves, to Hollywood. Still, he is well aware that he stands to recoup his losses, and then some. "I was doing two shows a night at the club-90 minutes' work for grand-theft money," he says. "But television is the now medium. Suddenly I've got a lot of future." But the years of waiting have left him rather bitter. "'Sanford made it in twelve weeks," he says. "Yet Redd Foxx has been around for 33 years. What took them...
CRIME Crime by females is increasing. In 1970 rates of robbery (up 187.9% over 1960), burglary (133.8%) and auto theft (133%) are all going up faster among women than among men. In absolute terms, women still commit far fewer serious crimes than do men (215,614 arrests of women to 1,058,169 for men in 1970), and that makes the rate of increase more striking The percentage of females in federal and state prisons is therefore still small (3 to 4%), but three of the notables on the FBI's list of twelve "most-wanted" fugitives are women...
Where the lie and falsehood theft and malevolence, selfishness, represent vain glory...
...successfully opposed a motion for change of venue, even though two jurors admitted knowing of Johnson's militant reputation. After 1½ days of testimony and only half an hour of deliberation, the jury found Johnson guilty. Vance cited the fact that Johnson had previously been convicted of theft and asked for a sentence of 20 years. The jury went a step farther and decided...