Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 14, 1993 TAG: 9310140128
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JOEL TURNER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Lewis du Pont Smith, one of the heirs to the Du Pont chemical fortune, charged that the LaRouche investigation was politically motivated.
Smith said a former deputy with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department has boasted that he has information that could "blow the LaRouche investigation sky-high."
Voters have a right to know before the election what Terry is hiding, Smith said. "Does Mary Sue have something to hide?" Smith asked.
A Terry campaign spokesman had no immediate reaction to Smith's request.
As a result of the investigation and a raid on LaRouche offices in Loudoun County while Terry was attorney general, LaRouche and several associates were convicted of violating securities laws.
Several of the cases were moved to Roanoke County for trial and presided over by Judge Clifford Weckstein, who also has come under attack by LaRouche's supporters.
Smith and Spannaus are members of LaRouche's political organization. Smith, campaigning on her behalf, stopped in Roanoke for a news conference.
Smith also called on Terry to disclose her role in an alleged foiled conspiracy to kidnap him and his wife.
Last year, a federal jury acquitted Smith's father, Philadelphia businessman E. Newbold Smith, and three other men of charges that they plotted to kidnap Smith to "deprogram" him from LaRouche's influence.
Smith said one of those acquitted in the kidnapping case is the same former deputy who claims to have damaging information on Terry.
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