On March 23, 1965, an indictment was returned against respondent, Wade, and two others for conspiring to rob the bank, and against Wade and the accomplice for the robbery itself. Wade was arrested on April 2, and counsel was appointed to represent him on April 26. • Fifteen days later an FBI agent, without notice to Wade’s lawyer, arranged to have the two bank employees observe a lineup made of Wade and five or six other prisoners and conducted in a courtroom of the local county courthouse. • Each person in the line wore strips of tape such as allegedly worn by the robber and upon direction each said something like “put the money in the bag,” the words allegedly uttered by the robber. • The employees were crossed examined about the nature of the previous lineup.
It was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. President Carter called the hostages victims of terrorism and anarchy, adding that the United States will not yield to blackmail. President Carter applied economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran such as oil imports from Iran were ended on November 12, 1979, and through the issuance of Executive Order 12170, around US$8 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S. were frozen by the Office of Foreign Assets Control on November 14. After failed attempts to negotiate a release, Carter approved an ill-fated secret rescue mission, Operation Eagle Claw on April 24, 1980, which resulted in a failed mission, the deaths of eight American servicemen, one Iranian civilian, and the destruction of two aircraft. After months of negotiations the United States had agreed to release several billion dollars in Iranian gold and bank assets, and the government of Iran, involved in a war with Iraq, was desperate for money and therefore seemed willing to release the hostages.
The two men first met when they both spoke at a meeting of the Baltimore Civil Service Reform Association. Roosevelt, then Civil Service commissioner, boasted of his reforms in federal law enforcement (FBI 2007). When the Bureau of Investigation first started they mainly investigated abuses of laws involving national banking and bankruptcy. They received their first brake in June 1910. According to an article with The Federal Bureau of Investigation that’s when the Mann ("White Slave") Act was passed, making it a crime to transport women over state lines for immoral purposes.
He was suspected of being part of the cocaine business. Police officers decided to put a tracking device under Jones car for 28 days. At the Governmental level, the Supreme Court in Washington has made a decision that the police officers have dishonored the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment explains how the amendment protects against unreasonable search
The Watergate Scandal The Watergate scandal was a political scandal of the Democratic Party in the 1970s. The scandal all started from a burglary by five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, the Watergate, in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. All five men were caught and arrested that same night. The FBI connected payments to all of the men from a slush fund of the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President, which made the investigation very popular and interesting. The story of the Watergate burglary caught the attention of two reporters of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who started a little investigation of their own that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon on August 9,
The investigation that took place questioned many motives of the white house and its connections in the scandal; however, the president denied all allegations. The president at the time was Richard Nixon, after his re-election in n November 1972 he had taken office for his second term. Initially the American people had chosen the president of their choice; however the tragedy that followed made most Americans loose trust in government and political leaders. The Watergate scandal in June 17th had five men caught in the offices of Democrats campaign headquarters. The uncovering of
Body Paragraphs The unraveling of the cover-up began in the immediate aftermath of the arrests, the search of the burglars' hotel rooms, and a background investigation of the initial evidence, most prominently thousands of dollars in cash in their possession at the time of arrest. On June 19, 1972, it was publicly revealed that one of the Watergate burglars was a GOP security aide. Former Attorney General John Mitchell, who at the time was the head of the Nixon re-election campaign, denied any involvement with the Watergate break-in or knowledge of the five burglars. On August 1, a $25,000 cashiers check earmarked for the Nixon re-election campaign, was found in the bank account of one of the Watergate burglars. Further investigation would reveal accounts showing that still more thousands had passed through their bank and credit card accounts, supporting their travel, living expenses, and purchases, in the months leading up to their arrests.
1970’s Politics -Richard Nixon • president from 1969-1974 • resigned in 1974 because of the Watergate Scandal. • was responsible for the US's withdraw from Vietnam. • 1972, on June 19th, an announcement was made that the FBI would start investigating the Watergate break in. • January 5, 1972, President Nixon announced plans for the space shuttle program. Gerald Ford • -was in office from 1974-1977 and took over for Richard Nixon • -became the first President to not be elected.
Senate investigations uncovered Forbes’s illegal financial dealings at the Veterans Bureau and pointed to Daugherty’s collusion with the Ohio Gang. Far more serious was the unfolding of the Teapot Dome Scandal. In 1921 Interior Secretary Albert Fall had persuaded Harding to transfer authority over two of the nation’s most important oil reserves—Elk Hills in California and Teapot Dome in Wyoming—from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. Fall then leased these reserves to private oil companies, netting for himself several hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and loans. Fall and Forbes later received jail sentences for their crimes; Daugherty twice went on trial, the first resulting in a hung jury and the second in a not guilty
The Watergate scandal (or just "Watergate") was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The affair was named after the hotel where the burglary that led to a series of investigations occurred. In the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon was running for reelection, someone broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, which was in an office/residence complex in Washington, D.C., called Watergate. The scandal erupted when it was learned that the perpetrators were part of the Nixon administration, and that the White House had audio tapes to prove it. Congress pressured the President for many months to provide these tapes, while