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AUSTIN — Speaker Bill Clayton
eceived $5,000 rather than $10,000
om a union official and may refuse
to answer questions from a federal
and jury investigating bribery alle-
;ations, his attorneys said Tuesday.
Lawyers for the embattled House
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■aft rally on&ij speaker’s Capitol office Tuesday
alifornia at y, to observe the removal of a sealed
I Envelope from a locked desk drawer,
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but referred most questions to their
lawyers.
Defense attorney Bill Fitzgerald
said the five bundles of cash — each
containing 10 $100 bills — were
placed in a sealed envelope immedi
ately after Clayton s Nov. 8 meeting
with L.G. Moore, a Houston union
leader, and an individual who intro
duced himself as a representative of
Prudential Insurance Co. of
America.
Investigators have alleged Clayton
accepted a $10,000 bribe from
Moore in exchange for a promise to
help Prudential win a state contract
for a multimillion insurance program
on state workers.
Fitzgerald said U.S. Attorney).A.
Canales suggested Clayton’s attor
neys make pictures of the bills and
bring the cash to the federal grand
jury in Houston today where the
speaker is subpoenaed to testify.
Clayton’s aides said the speaker is
“torn up” about his lawyers’ insist
ence that he invoke his constitutional
privilege to refuse to answer incrimi
nating questions.
“No question he wants to testify,”
Fitzgerald said. “That’s a decision
we re laboring over. The speaker has
been insisting constantly that he
wants to testify.”
Fitzgerald “told me I was going to
listen to him or he wouldn’t repre
sent me, ” Clayton said when asked if
he will make the final decision.
Jack Gullahorn, former executive
assistant to Clayton serving on his
legal defense team, said reporters
were summoned to see the money
taken from a side drawer in Kelley s
desk after efforts to contact a court
official to take the money failed.
“We’ve been trying to do this all
weekend,” Gullahorn said. “There’s
no federal judged that’ll touch this
with a 10-foot pole.”
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HOUSTON — An associate of
House Speaker Bill Clayton, two
Houston city councilmen and three
sounded twoPiyecretaries appeared Tuesday before
all for thetwJ a federal grand jury investigating
bribery allegations in Texas,
j In the three-hour morning ses
sion, councilmen Homer Ford and
t | Jim Westmoreland appeared, as well
Hs Charlene Womack, Westmore-
i] b land’s secretary. Also testifying were
StriKpeilia D' az ’ w h° se attorneys would
pay only that she worked in an office
rsBdjacent to Westmoreland, and
• 11 . Mary Ann Crow, secretary to local
VlLil Cltfl^r leader L.G. Moore.
H Bob Johnson, longtime director of
I The Legislative Council and
Clayton’s appointee to the Texas
Employees Retirement Board, was
Icheduled to appear in the afternoon
before the grand jury investigating
the FBI’s “brilab” — short for brib-
Iry-labor — allegations of corruption
m state and local governments in
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and
vers, noweverfiPklahoma.
ism that the sffl Clayton allegedly accepted an
“I’ll be glad when it’s all over,” he
said.
Ford's only comment was a light
hearted statement regarding the
FBI’s methods, which some claim
constitute entrapment.
“Entrapment, I can’t even claim
entrapment because nobody offered
me anything,” he told reporters.
Among others subpoenaed to
appear this week or next were Ran
dall Wood, an Austin attorney and
former lobbyist for Common Cause;
Rusty Kelley, executive assistant;
and Frank Mann, a former Houston
city councilman.
Clayton, 51, a millionaire farmer
from Springlake, Texas, has acknow
ledged receiving money on Nov. 8
from a union official who visited him
ostensibly on behalf of Prudential In
surance Co.
Clayton said the bid information
the insurance company representa
tive requested was public and that
his only interest was in saving money
for the state on the $70 million to $80
million insurance plan covering state
employees. Former lobbyist Wood,
whose law partner, Donald W. Ray,
also has been subpoenaed, said three
men who identified themselves as
Prudential representatives hired his
law firm three or four months ago
seeking information on the lucrative
insurance contract with the Texas
Employees Retirement System.
Jackie St. Clair, the former state
labor commissioner who now heads
the state Building and Construction
Trades Council, also was sub
poenaed Monday.
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Clayton allegedly accepted
i cuts represente $10,000 from a fake Prudential agent
budgetary[K^fntroduced by Moore but said he had
ot intended to keep it.
In December the Houston City
buncil switched its $14 million em
ployee coverage to Prudential by a
-2 vote. The retirement board,
hich Johnson heads, arranges for
state employees’ insurance.
Westmoreland said he would not
discuss the testimony because he
might prejudice other witnesses.
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