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Councilmen flocked to payoff ‘like flies
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Two city councilmen charged with
bribery in the nation’s third Abscam trial were attracted to
payoffs by FBI undercover agents as if they were flies flocking
to honey, the government’s top informant said Thursday.
“They came to us for business,” testified Melvin Weinberg,
who has been on the FBI payroll since 1969. “We put the
honey in the pot and the flies came.”
Weinberg, who has figured prominently in all three Abscam
trials, was referring to Councilmen George X. Schwartz and
Harry P. Jannotti, accused of taking a total of $40,000 in bribes
to help a phony Arab sheik finance hotel construction in Phi
ladelphia.
During cross-examination, Schwartz’s lawyer, Richard
Sprague, asked, “You wanted to see what kind of bees came in
to nip at the honey?”
“The middlemen came to us. We didn’t go to them,” Wein
berg said.
In opening remarks Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney
James J. Rohn said Schwartz and Jannotti “corrupted their
offices” by agreeing to use their influence in exchange for the
money, and said secretly recorded videotapes would prove it.
But Jannotti’s lawyer, J. Clayton Undercoffler, indicated his
client was the victim of entrapment. Sprague, deferred open
ing remarks to the six-man, six-woman jury until later.
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“We put the honey in the pot and the
Hies came, ’’testified Melvin
Weinberg, who has been on the FBI
payroll since 1969.
The government charged that Schwartz, 65, took $30,000;
Jannotti, 56, took $10,000.
The trial resumed Thursday before U.S. District Judge John
P. Fullam.
Rohn told the jury the videotapes will show that Schwartz
and Jannotti attended meetings at Philadelphia’s luxurious
Barclay Hotel “to receive payoffs in return for using their
influence in City Council.”
The agents told the councilmen the sheik was interested in
financing construction of a hotel in South Philadelphia, but
would not pursue the project “unless he could take care of
problems in advance” concerning zoning and licensing and
inspections, Rohn said.
At a meeting Jan. 23, Schwartz boasted he could “deliver
city council to (FBI agent Michael) Wald on his birttlL
Rohn said. H te{ i p re
In a meeting the next night, Rohn said lannotti I'H-yv yORK*-
agents “his vote would be there in City CouncilifpJ| 0 . ; <;jKilitv h
arose.” [ srae
But Undercoffler asked the jury to “look for the indite’ ,j ie lllos t HI
look for the misrepresentations” when the tapes ofhisiH e j 0 f eX pei
meeting are played. Rational affi
During the meeting, Undercoffler said Jannotti: The results ol
agents “at least 15 times’ that he would support ihKf 32 civili;
project only “if it was legitimate.” ■ publisher
“The evidence will show that Harry Jannotti want* |t ( | )er i ssue > 1
the city,” Undercoffler said. “The evidence will skR 0 ^ P°t en tb
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Fullam told the jury it must decide the issue of
— whether the defendants were pre-disposed totakelilRp (re not
whether they were persuaded to do so l>\ the agenls m (J( |
Indicted with Schwartz and Jannotti were CoimT s in jyjpj
Louis Johanson and Philadelphia lawyer Iloward Cridt:,,p, n ■ s po
victed last month in the first Abscam trial in NewMR^ e are tr
Fullam severed their trials from the current pn ssln on a sub
ruling the guilty verdicts might be prejudicial. B '
Johanson and Criden might he called as witnesses
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — God is not a person and a
prayer is not a private conversation between two parties, a Canadian
appeals court says.
The British Columbia Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday a man who
was heard by a policeman to say “Oh, God, let me get away with it just
this once,” must stand trial again for inciting arson. The ruling reversed
a lower court decision which aquitted the man on the grounds of prayer
being inadmissible evidence.
In its 2-1 majority decision, the province’s court of appeal ruled
prayer was admissible evidence since God is not a person, defined in
the law as “a human being having rights or duties recognized by law. ”
Justice Henry Hutcheon said he did “not accept the proposition the
word ‘person’ ... extends beyond the human species,” saying the
prayer did not constitute a “private conversation” as defined by the
Criminal Code, because God was not a person.
Davie had agreed to undergo a lie detector test in connection with
the incident, but before starting the procedure, a police sergeant left
Davie and went into an adjacent room equipped with a video camera
and microphone.
The supplication was presented as evidence in Davie’s ensuing
county court trial, but the judge ruled it was a private conversation,
which under Criminal Code provisions must be between two persons,
and therefore privileged information and inadmissible.
United Press International
BOSTON — A Vietnam veteran
claimed his involvement in an inter
national drug smuggling ring was the
result of “Vietnam syndrome,” an
uncontrollable, combat-triggered
urge to take dangerous risks. The
jury did not believe him.
Peter L. Krutchewski, 36, a
Michigan businessman, was found
guilty Wednesday of helping to
smuggle 26 tons of marijuana from
Colombia to Gloucester, Mass., in
1975. He faces a total of 20 years in
jail at his sentencing Oct. 6.
The former Army helicopter pilot
admitted his involvement in the
drug episode, but claimed he suf
fered from delayed stress syndrome
— commonly called “Vietnam syn
drome” — a mental disorder affect
ing Vietnam veterans.
Krutchewski told jurors the illness
rendered him unable to cope with a
He now runs a
Lansing,
return to civilian life
gas development firm
Mich.
Defense attorney Roger Craig
maintained his client’s uncontroll
able need to take dangerous risks
qualified him as legally insane, and
therefore innocent of drug-
smuggling charges.
in a non-violent premeditateda
Krutchewski admitted rfc|
$500,000 in the drug mm:
scheme, hut he pleadedimod
reason of insanity duetostrfl
fered during his two loifa
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The jurors deliberated for several
hours Tuesday and most of the day
Wednesday before handing down its
verdict.
The so-called “combat-fatigue
disease, likened by one psychiatrist
to “shell shock, is recognized by the
American Psychiatric Association
and the Veterans Administration.
The defense has been successfully
used in cases in California and Penn
sylvania, but Wednesday’s verdict
marks the first time it has been used
Psychiatrist Dr. Donald I WASH INGT
tie of Santa Kosa, Calif., te dng again, a
that his examination of Knili vfrninent oft
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