ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 9, 1996 TAG: 9604090104
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
Rostenkowski agrees to guilty plea
WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., has agreed to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges in return for a 17-month prison sentence and a $100,000 fine, according to a source close to the case.
Rostenkowski, 68, was chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
Rostenkowski is scheduled to go on trial May 15 on charges that he engaged in a pattern of corrupt activities that spanned three decades. He is accused of misusing the House Post Office and the House Stationery Store to his own benefit, and of converting more than $600,000 in federal funds and $50,000 in campaign funds to personal use.
- The Washington Post
Souter: No cameras for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - Justice David H. Souter had some bad news recently for anyone who might have hoped cameras would record the Supreme Court's oral arguments on issues of great moment to the country. Forget it.
``The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body,'' Souter told a House Appropriations subcommittee recently.
Souter said the presence of cameras when he was on the bench in New Hampshire made him pull punches lest he asked a question that would provide a ``10-second sound bite on television that night.'' ``The whole point of the Supreme Court is that it is not a political institution and it is not part of the entertainment industry of the United States,'' he said.
- The Washington Post
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