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‘ Soodbye, Richmond |The best thing that can be said @ been helping’ i ion’ \ . f i n helping to write the natit 7 Out the resignation of Fred Rich- laws for nearly eight years, one ond from peu House of Repre-@ That this has been tolerated so. | | a ood riddance.” long is partly the fault of the . Richmond, Of Brooklyn, first 3 itself. The House ethics come ime to public attention in 1978 lelayed investigating Richmond's } chen he acknowledged Soliciting nduct until recently, probably in | } j pears x from an undercover police offi- S@ghe b that he would i Prok wt and a 16-year-old boy and was Set oh his own. Sometime faced in a “first-offender’s” The committee hates to investi\ : gram. gate the s] activities of a fell , Since then he has been investigat- % ¥member, even though that’s ‘what i a r 1 by federal agencies on a variety © {it's supposed to do. g other charges Tanging from in- ~ : 4 yme-tax evasion to sheltering an ' ake By JOHNaped felon to having his congres- @ Richmond finally took the com- WW: GENE ona! aides buy illegal drugs for mites of te hook. He pleaded yPps-Howe g me-tax evasion, violat- ! wSuinctc-Richmond, one of the richest men w ing federal salary laws and posses- } cuts are inv; Congress, pleaded guilty to three gy Sion of marijuana. or @h FBI head'2fges in U.S. District Court and A federal prosecutor commented av t irsigned from the House. that “basically, this is a tragic occa- tri ofscyen ee sion Nonsense. Richmond not only re ai . la! ou gaat It’s distressing to reflect that a Sisplayed contempt for the law but Teeny aan of Richmond's character has Xythrow Oe ores at Ought to ae ef, reditpni Me ot nw ee MMAT Bee eee ee or Suyen gi onds and Jewels, a bank robberies but also criminal tax ° orging toyiaformed sources. evasion and receipt of stolen prop- sl ps Berard News Service “erty, sources said. « as Tearned What top FBI officials Spokesmen for the FBI and the e-knowi OP the BI supervisor's U.S. attorney refused to comment ged in®&fement in the bank on the investigation. - a” | ipa r almost a tht and The FRI official, a $40,000-a-year ti tied to have the unidenti- supervisor, has been allowed to re ed sypel a fired. ©’ : fnain at his post at FBI headquar: / jeODepartment officials fers_In_Washington_but_has s/f key thRg tbecase be investigat- assigned no duties for the past sev; 4 for"poss, nina charges. + .¢fa’_months, oy “This thiggecut through the FBI “They've got him dangling by. j ke a hot through butter,” a thumbs,” said one source. ~ ,’ »p. Justic! partment official A key witness in the case j uid. “Everyone in the hierarchy of (Continued on Page A-8, Col’ —_—_— . . * < > . ae ta . . . so fa. comepremey au vine "sav, a tyust S sawyer, Bart Muli th the arson case. of Pine Bluff, said in a telephone ‘s a legislative aide and former _ interview. 2f administrative assistant to He said he had been i Zlellan in the mid-1960s, Probst prosecutors not to “ay aye 2ed author major anti-crime leg- more about the probe, ‘nothing tion then pending in the Senate. also was a campaign aide to GET GOING with Gil ner Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-~ His new Go Guide ie arr Love , and Sen. Dale Bumpers, D- | The Press Public service depart. +» @ former governor ment, fourth I ‘ Q 4s WS , floor, for only $3, 7 | Ame ITEH BEITER THOM TRE: ITED Abscam. Verdicts Upheld NEW YORK (UPI) — A federal Congressman, in| 2nd US. Circuit aught in the a o-year_ FBI probe. The 3-0 ruling yest U t Court of Ap; ' on _vid appeals court has upheld the: Ab- am convictions of four former sot sterday by the * was the first by a federal appeals‘ court involving any of the seveh members of Congress convicted asa result of the investigation. ‘The_court upheld the convictions of_former Reps. John Murpby_of New York, Frank Thompson of New Pennsylvania. we , and Michael Myers and Ray- fond’ "Lederer, both « of Ia” The court, however, ordered "2 against him court. luct in the ver jeral_crimes,” (Abscam)_ ie investigation, though subject .of some criticism, affords no basis | retrial on a conflict of interest count * against Murphy and lowered fines m Frown $20,000 to $10,009. oA “The four congressmen ‘were caught on videotape ied gf_committing Sy ‘wrote Judge Jon fewman for ejecting the convictions,” he said. 1 Seg te cor jewman noted his ap; | only with trials of the al dealt lefendants and said a 16-day due-process h ing in ear] 1 upheld the conduct ‘ the agents during the achyal bscam investigation. In other Abscam trials involving members of Congress, former Sen. N.J., and for- tte_of- South ida also were foun cal corruption. ison Williams, D- mer Reps. Carolina and Richard Kelly ty of of Flot, te