The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 300, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1974 Page: 3 of 26
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
•LEON CALVERT Moody,
•son of Mr. and Mrs. Cal
*Moody of Alexandria, La.,
I celebrates his second birth-
Jday Thursday. He has two
Jslsters Genevieve Susan, $
jand Kerl Ellen, 4 months.
•Grandparents are Mr. and
• Mrs. Leon P. Crawford of
Highlands and Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Moody of Plant City,
Fla. Great-grandparents are
‘Morgan W. Walker of Alex-
andria, La., Mrs. Mary
; Moody of •alifornia and Mr.
JWid Mrs. W. L. Bailey of
•Baytown. Great-great-
; grandmother is Mrs. G, D.
• Palmer of Houston.
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KENNETH REESE Hath-
away, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Lloyd Hathaway of
Baytown, celebrates his
fourth birthday Thursday.
He has a sister Kelsey, 20
months. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Hath-
away and Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Bains Jr., all of Baytown.
Great-grandparents are
Mrs. P. N. Whiteside and
Mrs. L, C. Vandaver, both of
Ennis and MrS. Fred Allred
of Neosho. Mo.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A re-
tired film producer on the West
Coast is trying to raise 6400,000
for H. R, Haldeman's legal ex-
penses A New York law firm
submits a 1471,390 bill for de-
fending John N. Mitchell. An-
other lawyer claims he is owed
$114.500 and he is suing for it.
Three examples out of doz-
ens, all proving the same
thing: Innocent or guilty, the
cost of being a Watergate de-
fendant is staggering.
A lawyer representing one of
the six - defendants in next
month's Watergate cover-op
trial was asked to estimate the
likely cost of that trial to the
accused and the government.
"Several million dollars,” he
said without hesitation.
To date nearly 50 individuals
have been charged with crimes
lumped loosely under the Wa-
tergate umbrella. Probably 50
others were - or/thought they
were - under investigation,
Most hired lawyers
More than a dozen corpo-
rations pleaded guilty to cam-
paign finance law violations
and paid fines of $1,000
$20,000. Their lawyers, safe to
say, cost more than the fines
Even the most talkative de-
fense attorney will fall silent
when he is asked about his
fees. But he'll hint at what the
other guy charges
The caliber of attorneys
makes it certain that none bill
less than $75-100 an hour and
the senior partner in a presti-
gious firm will charge $250
During a trial he may spend
six hours a day in court and
another four preparing for the
next day.
That’s $2,500 a day. With the
trial expected to last three
months - 60 court days —-that
comes to an even $150,000, win
or lose
But a trial is only a waystop
in a long road.
In his last days as Nixon’s
chief of staff, Haldeman hired
73-year-old John J. Wilson and
Frank, H. Strickler to represent
him. Their reputations are tow-
ering and so, presumably
their fees
They sat with Haldeman
through three days before the
Senate Watergate committee,
more days in his interviews
with the staff, more when he
appeared before grand juries,
more at his indictment and nu-
merous conferences in court
and chambers,
Z Wayne Griffin, a friend of
the Haldeman family, heads his
defense fund.
'The amount we think is nec-
essary is about $400,000," he
said. "I can't tell you how
much we’ve received so far.
Wilson and Strickler also rep-
resented former Nixon aide
John Ehrlichman at first, but
after his indictment had to step
out because of a potential con-
flict of interest with Halde-
man's defense
Ehrlichman hired the law
firm of William S. Frates of
Miami, whose clients include
Nixon friend Charles G. (Bebe
Rebozo. Fratds not only em-
two Washington attor-
the team, but also
an $85-a-day hotel
suite in the capital for an asso-
ciate who spends weeks at
time there.
Seattle attorney David
Wiliams
from that conviction and a sen- top people in the Nixon re-elec*
tence of 20 to 60 months are in tion organization. But Halde-
progress while Ehrlichman pre- man and Ehrlichman, who
pares to go on trial on cover-up were not on the payroll of the
charges. Committee for the Re-Election
In addition, Ehrlichmah has
legal expenses in Los Angeles
where he remains charged with
perjury.
Sources familiar with the Eh-
rlichman legal defense fund say
that only $50,000 has been
is the managing raised and much of that was in
trustee of Ehrlichman's defense
fund, created last December, hi
May, officials said Ehrlichman
needed $150,000. Now, Williams
said, Ehrlichman figures he'll
need $300;000 -to* pay for all
criminal and civil suits and ap-
peals.
Frates headed Ehrlichman's
defense team in the two-week
Plumbers' trial in which the
former Nixon lieutenant __
convicted for conspiracy to vio-
late the civil rights of Daniel
Ellsberg’s psychiatrist and two
counts of perjury. The appeal
the early stages
Mitchell and former Secre-
tary of Commerce Maurice H.
Stans went through a 48-day
trial in New York before being
acquitted of charges in the Ves-
co case,
Stans' legal bill was $380,793;
Mitchell's $393,346 plus $79,044
expenses.
It was paid, or will be soon
by the trust fund handling the
money left in the coffers of
Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election
committee
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TERILYN LEE. Tiller,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Glynn Tiller of 2012 Kilgore,
celebrates her fourth birth-
day Thursday with a party.
She has a brother Todd, 10.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Dillon of Bay-
town and Mr. and MTS. Ross
Tiller of Texarkana. Great-
grandmother is Mrs. Marvin
Fleming of Texarkana.
| Gulf Has New
Division Boss
| At CB Plant
B. B. (Bert) Hamel has been
named manager of engineer-
ing and maintenance At Gulf’s
Cedar Bayou Olefin Plant
here.
Hamel is a native of Bay-
town, a 1944 graduate of Rob-
ert E. Lee, and holdra BS de-1
gree in mechanical engineer-1
ing from the University of Tex-
as at Austin.
He joined Gulf at the com-
pany’s Port Arthur refinery in j
1954, holding various positions
there from 1954 to 1963. He then
transferred overseas, first to
Kuwait and then to Okinawa
where he was manager of engi-
neering.
In May, 1974, he returned to I
the Port Arthur refinery as
senior engineering specialist in '
the maintenance division.
The committee, at latest re-
port, had spent or owed $1.9
million total in legal costs, plus
another $775,000 to settle a law-
suit from the Democratic Na-
tional Committee stemming
from the Watergate break-in.
Mitchell and Stans were the
of the President, have no such
financial umbrella.
For their money, the defend-
ants get the kind of legal help
seldom available to the average
American
Last May 1, when pre-trial
motions were due in both the!
cover-up and Plumbers' cases,!
lawyers for the 11 individuals
then involved filed a total of 48
motions, some running 70 pages
or more. The stack was more
than two feet high.
Behind each was research
into hundreds of precedent
cases to guide the judge. Most
of the motions were rejected,
as the lawyers knew they would
be But they went through the
legal acrobatics on the gamble
that a misstep by the judge
would provide grounds for ap-
peal, and maybe overturn of a
sentence yet to come.
I It's called "building the
record," a luxury only the well
heeled can afford.
Watergate lawyers say the
government is at an advantage
in-preparing cases.
"Where they really have you
outgunned is riot how many
lawyers they have - and they
have plenty - but the in-
vestigative, manpower at their the
disposal," says a cover-up de-
fendant's lawyer who once
worked in the Justice Depart-
ment.
Some of the better-known
names in Watergate have tried
to keep afloat by writing books,
hoping a hit can defray some of
the costs. Jeb Stuart Magruder,
currently serving a 10 months
to 4 year prison sentence, prob-
ably has come rlosest to that
goal.
James W McCord Jr., whose
lawyers have managed to keep
him out of jail through appeals,
has written the first of several
books. E. Howard Hunt Jr
out with a new one.
The bills to the taxpayer are
also high. Millions were spent
by the Senate Watergate com
mittee apd the House Judiciary
Committee.
Special Watergate prosecutor
Leon Jaworskl has 36 lawyers
on his staff, plus 4S clerical, ad-
ministrative and compuier
people. Salaries run $1.8 million
a year. Other expenses total
another million.
The government attorneys
salaries range from $38,000 a
year for Jaworski to $17,500 for
the most junior attorney, an av
erage of $28,000. ‘
For those defendants who
have no fund-raising going
there is another way out — de-
claring themselves paupers and
thus, with court approval,
avoiding at least the expenses
involved in filings to the court.
Bernard L. Baker and Eugenio
Martinez, convicted in both
Watergate break-in and
Plumbers-' cases, went that
route^^^HI^H^^H
Legal bills have been run up
by many who havb not been ac
cused of . anything
& B. HAMEL
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Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Harrell of j
Old River and Mr. and Mrs.
Lee.Wisnbske of Enterprise, I
Ala. Great-grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs, Harry Right of j
El Campo, Mr, and Mrs.
Charlie Harrell of Old River I
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Harris of Houston.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 300, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1974, newspaper, September 26, 1974; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061965/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.