Chapter+15

__Chapter 15__ - By: Ashley DelGreco, Emma Peterson, Courtney Edson, Chris O'D

Earl Silbert, as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during Watergate, prosecuted many of the President's men during the scandal. Like many of the other prosecuters at this trial, he could not believe that the corruption in the government involved the White house and the top members of the Justice Department. As a  graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Silbert has served on the faculty of numerous American Bar Association and other continuing legal education programs. He has worked extensively in the areas of white collar crime, the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine for corporations and their employees, RICO, and other litigation issues. He worked as a Justice Department lawyer and a federal prosecutor before he took a job as the U.S. attorney in Washington D.C.. He was the first prosecuter of the Watergate trials which took place in 1972. Time Magazine claimed that Silbert "pursued the case with tunnel vision". This is to say that he focused more on the actual burglary and wire tapping than the larger Watergate Scandal as a whole. In 1979, he left office and is now a member of the Piper Rudnick lawfirm, a nationally known lawfirm in D.C.. Mr. Silbert was the president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a former chairperson of the Federal District Court Committee on Grievances for the District of Columbia, and a former president of the National Association of Former US Attorneys. He currently serves as a member of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Advisory Commission on Sentencing. In 2009, the Council for Court Excellence honored him with the Justice Potter Stewart Award for his work to improve the judicial system, both as a United Sates Attorney and subsequently in private practice.
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Hugh Sloan was born November 1st, 1940 in New Jersey. After attending Princeton University Sloan he joined the U.S. navy in 1963. After 2 years in the U.S. navy Sloan started on a political career. Hugh Sloan was a memb er of the Republican Party. He started off by participating in fundraising for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1965. Then in 1966 he became a member of the Republican National Finance Committee. His input into the political world was just starting in 1968 he became a part of the Presidential Transition Committee and was a personal aide to President Richard Nixon. Hugh Sloan soon became the treasurer of CREEP. He was still treasurer at the time of the Watergate scandal, but shortly after the scandal Hugh resigned as secretary knowing that many issues would soon arise. After the scandal broke Sloan was not afraid to share information and throw co-workers under the bus. Sloan was very willing to talk to reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. He was one of the key links to proving the connection of the burglary to CREEP. Sloan confirmed the involvement of men like Richard Nixon’s chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. Hugh Sloan also said that there was at least $70,000 was spent to pay off the burglars from the "slush fund". This was authorized by the financial director of CREEP Maurice Stans. "John Mitchell, the former attorney general and former head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), personally controlled a secret Republican “hush fund” used to finance widespread intelligence-gathering operations against the Democratic Party“ to insure the re-election of Richard Nixon. Sloan testified against during the Watergate trial giving much information about that incriminated many people involved in the scandal. After the scandal Sloan became part of a Michigan based grouped called Woodbridge Group. He became the chairman of this interior foam making company. The scandal to had Sloan second guess a political career and moved on.
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Maurice Stans was a cabinet member in the Eisenhower administration. Under Eisenhower he severed as the Deputy Postmaster General, the Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and Director of the Bureau of the Budget. During the first Nixon administration he served as the Commerce Secretary. Later become the finance chairman of CREEP or the campaign to re-elect the president. His job was to raise money for activities carried out by the group. His fundraising efforts brought in nearly $60 million for Nixon and the money was used to finance the dirty tactics employed by CREEP. One event his money went to was the break-in of the Watergate Hotel. After the scandal was revealed Maurice Stans denied that he did not know how the money he raised was used. However, Stans was indicted for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. In the years following the Watergate Scandal, Maurice remained loyal to the former president; he raised $27 million for the Nixon library in Yonda Linda, California
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