General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Class 51 (Offenses against Public Justice, Bribery and Perjury) Litigation Case Files
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General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Class 51 (Offenses against Public Justice, Bribery and Perjury) Litigation Case Files
This series consists of case files and enclosures that relate to offenses against public justice in matters involving the Federal Government, that include betrayal of office, bribery, conflict of interest, contempt, perjury, and obstruction of justice. The case files contain briefs, correspondence, memorandums, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, reports, and telegrams. The enclosures contain U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals briefs, transcripts of records and petitions, correspondence, memorandums, investigative reports, legal briefs, photographs, magnetic recordings, and newspaper clippings as applicable to each case.
The series includes records relating to the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (file: 51-35-262); attorney, and former chief counsel to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (file: 51-292), Roy Cohn (file: 51-51-693); businessman Billie Sol Estes (file: 51-76-107); Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas (file: 51-16-823); the General Motors Corporation (file: 51-23-354); Department of State official Alger Hiss (file: 51-16-67); the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), James “Jimmy” Hoffa (files: 51-403 through 51-403-304); civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (file: 51-19M-58); Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (files: 51-51-553 and 51-51-786); attempts by journalist and author Peter Maas to publish his edition of the memoirs of American Mafia member Joseph Valachi (file: 51-16-768); Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (file: 51-292); Watergate scandal figures Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Harry L. Sears, Maurice Stans, and Robert L. Vesco (file: 51-51-1140); the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (file: 51-51-1252); the harassment of consumer advocate Ralph Nader (file: 51-16-761); the Port of New York Authority (file: 51-51-634); the blinding of journalist and columnist Victor Riesel (file: 51-51-472); the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., son of the famous entertainer (file: 51-12-482); former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, and his former special assistant, Henry L. Kimelman (file: 51-11-356); and the murder of United Mine Workers of America presidential candidate Joseph “Jock” Yablonski (file: 51-57-125).
Other files relating to Jimmy Hoffa, his associates, and the leadership and activities of the IBT include Henry F. Bell (file: 51-71-29); William Buffalino (file: 51-16-623); Larry Campbell (file: 51-39-91); Benjamin Drano (file: 51-39-82); Walter Glockner (file: 51-51-732); Harold Lee Jenkins (file: 51-18-257); Z. T. Osborn (file: 51-71-30); Lou Poller (file: 51-16-654); William Presser (file: 51-57-74); Raymond J. Ryan (file: 51-403-153); Eugene Russell San Soucie (file: 51-16-611); Jacques M. Schiffer (file: 51-70-53); Bernard “Toots” Shore (51-51-645); Nicholas J. Tweel (file: 51-72-36); and the “Washington Afro-American” (file: 51-16-508).
The series contains records relating to many U.S. senators, including Daniel B. Brewster (file: 51-35-222); an alleged attempt to influence a vote by U.S. Senator Prescott Bush (file: 51-76-59); and Thomas J. Dodd (file: 51-16-762). The file relating to an alleged attempt to influence a vote by U.S. Senator Prescott Bush includes records of an interview with future U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
The series contains records relating to many U.S. congressmen, including Ernest King Bramblett (file: 51-12-139); John V. Dowdy (file: 51-35-223); William Joseph Green, Jr. (file: 51-374); Thomas F. Johnson (files: 51-35-127 and 51-35-133); Bertram L. Podell (file: 51-52-351); and T. Vincent Quinn (file: 51-51-324).
The series contains records relating to many Federal and state government officials, including Secretary to the Majority of the U.S. Senate, Robert G. Baker (file: 51-16-706); Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett, and Lieutenant Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr. (file: 51-40-17); Henry Clay, former commissioner of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (file: 51-16-546); Earl C. Corey, Director of the Portland, Oregon Commodity Office of the Commodity Stabilization Service (file: 51-61-35); Frank Cowart, former assistant to the administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Production and Marketing Administration (file: 51-75-10); Denis W. Delaney, Collector of Internal Revenue for Massachusetts (file: 51-36-42); Vermont State Senator Frederick J. Fayette (file: 51-78-13); James P. Finnegan, Collector of Internal Revenue at St. Louis, Missouri (file: 51-42-28); Frank Fred Lilly, former head of the Office Services Section of the Bureau of Narcotics (file: 51-16-454); Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack (file: 51-411); Clyde L. Powell, Assistant Commissioner of Rental Housing for the Federal Housing Administration (file: 51-16-390); United States Attorney Edgar H. Rossbach (file: 41-48-115); and Henry Welch, former director of the Division of Antibiotics of the Food and Drug Administration (file: 51-16-597).
The series contains records relating to many businessmen, including Bernard Goldfine (files: 51-416 and 51-441); and Howard I. Young (file: 51-355).
The series contains records relating to many businesses, including the American Packing Corporation (file: 51-48-85); the Howard Foundry Company (file: 51-23-401); the Shotwell Manufacturing Company (file: 51-23-166); the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Incorporated (file: 51-18-18); and United Auto Parts, Incorporated (file: 51-43-39).
The series contains records relating to many judges, including U.S. District Court Judge Stephen S. Chandler (file: 51-60-56); U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Warren Davis (file: 51-51-17); and New York Supreme Court Justice James Vincent Keogh (file: 51-51-614).
The series contains records relating to many gangsters and mobsters, including Anthony J. Biase, Anthony J. “Tiger” Cardarella, and Felix Ferina (file: 51-43-65); Louis Campagna (file 21-23-83); Antonio “Tony Ducks” Corallo (file: 51-51-916); Frank “the Prime Minister” Costello (file: 51-51-239); Carlos Marcello (file: 51-32-27); the Smaldone crime family of Colorado (files: 51-13-22 and 51-13-28); and Abner “Longie” Zwillman (file: 51-48-241).
The series also includes records relating to the murder of Arthur Adler, the former owner of the Trade Winds restaurant in Chicago, Illinois (file: 51-23-314); William Gilchrist Anderson, and other members of the Albany Movement for Civil Rights in Georgia (file: 51-19M-65); university professor Lloyd Barenblatt (file: 51-16-479); Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden (file: 51-23-402); the death of Ann Drahmann Coppola, former wife of mobster Michael “Trigger Mike” Coppola (file: 51-481); James G. Cross, International President of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America (file: 51-409); Lieutenant Colonel William K. Evans (file: 51-247); lobbyist and war goods broker Benjamin F. Fields (file: 51-246); the murder of Floyd Rairdon Hayes (file: 51-23-414); former Office of Strategic Services' team member Aldo Icardi (file: 51-64-43); the operations of the southwest region of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an investigation called Operation Clean Sweep (file: 51-537); the activities of personnel at the International House - which included a restaurant, snack shop, bar, and gift shop for civilians - in Saigon, the Republic of Vietnam (file: 51-522); the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (file: 51-16-57); George Marshall, the chairman of the Civil Rights Congress (file: 51-16-76); the murder of George P. McNear, Jr., the President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad (file: 51-25-5); Douglas MacCollum Stewart, publisher of “Scribner's Commentator” (file: 51-51-166); sales of U.S. grain to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (file: 51-16-933); an explosion at the Vapors, a club in Hot Springs, Arkansas (file: 51-10-15); Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe Waldenburg (file: 51-62-130); and former Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army, William O. Wooldridge (file: 51-16-847).
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