KEOGH BRIBERY CASE HEARD SECRETLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Drew Pearson
veil since members o en.
Dodd's staff copied his files,
there has been, national com-
~ment as to whether they were
doing.
.U. S. Judge'
AIexandcrt,
Ito reports;
the Senator to
not to Jack A'carsoa
Anderson and me.
In New York this week, a
secret hearing is taking place
under the auspices of former
New York State Court of Ap-
peals Judge Bruce Bromley,
now retired, which illustrates
thr, difficulties faced by the
press and even the Justice De-
partment in )prosccuting high
officials, especially when the
official Is connected with a
Senator or a potent Congress-
man.
The secret hearing pertains
to former Judge Vincent
Keogh of .the New York Su-
preme Court, who was con-
victed of taking 'a $30,000
bribe in a jukebox case in-
volving Antonio (Tony Ducks)
Corallo,
Though Judge ? Keogh was
tried before one of the most
respected of Federal judges,
District' Judge Edward Wein-
feld, ? and found' guilty by., a'
j
t reversed in the upper
c urts, nevertheless Keogh
s now asked for a hearing
o disbarment, and in this
arin?g the bribery case is
vrtuakly being tried all over
a ain.
Judge Keogh is alleging
t at William Hundley, the re-
s ected Justice Department
a torney who tried his case,
i ithheld facts and acted un
f irly. Hundley was an Eise'n-
wer appointee, has re-
ained on under the Di
c ats, is completely nonparti-
s n, leaned over backward to
osecute the case fairly.
Significantly, the rehearing
o the Judge Keogh case is
1 Id behind closed doors. The
blic and press are not per-
itted to be present.
?Vincent Keogh is the broth-
c of dapper Gene Keogh, the
le Congressman from
rooklyn, who . Is one of the
ost powerful Democrats in
1 ew York.' '
Note -- The bribery case
a ainst Judge Keogh was
ought only after, there was
certain amount of publicity
i the press which focused at-
t ntion on one of the worst
s andals in judicial history
s nee the conviction of Judge
Martin Manton, '
wily tic htMJUU .1" L!
remove documents from forward by almost everyone.
Dodd's office. It had been re. He had talked to Ambassa-?
ported that O'Hare was mots- dor Lodge, he said, about the
vated by revenge because his problems of Vietnam, but,)
friend, Terry Golden, had Lodge's Ideas hadn't achieved
been fired by Dodd. results. He said he had talked 4
-In my testimony before the to Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas,
Committee on Standards and the critic of his Vietnam poli-
:[}thics," O'Hare explained, "I cy, but Fulbright's ideas;
volunteered that I took the hadn't worked.
bulk of the documents with "J put Lansdale over there,"
which I was particularly con- coriri)icc 0'e 'lyresident, "but,)
corned on the weekend that nothin h Ji~ned."
Miss Golden was dismissed. '--HTTvoice sounded especial-`1
Your article infers a 'possible ly critical. At this point the,.,
motive of bitterness or re. President leaned back in his
venge over her dismissal, Noth- chair as he frequeirtly does.
ing could be further from the Just behind him, and near
truth, Under ordinary circum- enough so he could have';
stances we would have wel- bopped him on the head, sat'
corned Miss Golden's depar- General Lansdale:
ture from the office at this Lansdale said nothing. He?is
time. It was the equivalent of the man who performed won-
being exiled from Rome the ders in the Philippines in the
day before It burned," way of village reform and was
O'Hare then' "-summarized sent to Vietnam to stabilize
the reason why he took this and build. up its , villages.
unusual step. There, ' however, ? he. has not'
"We believed we were wit. been successful.
ness to grave misconduct In One reason Is that he can't
office," said, O'Hare. "I played get the same cooperation of
an extremely delicate role on top officials in South Vietnam,
the Senator's ? staff for over that he got in the Philippines.
six months, because 'I believed In the la'bter country Lansdale
that this disclosure of' Son, worked directly with Pres-
Dodd's activities was in ' the ident Magsaysay to cut red
public interest,", tape, got things moving. In;
South Vietnam,' Lansdale has'
Inside White House' to work through Ambassador:~
odd'a. Documents
President Johnson was hold. Lodge, who, doesn't like any.
Michael V. O'Hare, ~formez irig a staff conference.regard? one going' over his head top
ember of. Sen, Dodd 's staff, talk to top Vietnamese offi?,
s made an interesting and ing the political 'problems. of cials;'
f rthright Statement to, Time Vietnam, He coMpialnel that m 1966, nelt.Wolivi Rlsaeioots, Yrie~ c?
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