WXPost
SEP 1 0 1974
The Washington Merry-Go-Round 17,-.-fia,:=
Mtge THE WASHINGTON POST
Tuesday, Sept. I0, 1974
Double Stanchrd in jail Sentences
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he is serving a 25-year sentence. TeL), former Rep. Irv. Whalley
Rockefeller's
, Nleces—Tite
Insofar as possible, we (R-Pa.), New York Democratic scathingly
From inside the McNeil Is- checked out his statistical find- leader. Carmine DeSapio, finan- "Millhouseanti-Nixon lot5'viio: A White Coniedy,"
land penitentiary has come a ings with the annual reports of cier Louis Wolfson, ex-Army was
heavily financed by thrge
fascinating insight into the con- the federal courts. We also con- Maj. Gen. Carl Turner and fornieces of Vice President-desigtroversy over prison sentences. sulted a similar survey by fed- mer Nixon figures Herb Kalmnate Nelson Rockefeller.
Some of ex-President Nixon's eral prosecutors in New York. bach and Kleindienst.
Rockefeller had nothingto do
former associates, who became Browder's figures stand up.
with his nieces's generosity. 11/s
entangled in the Watergate The inmate found that noted In one ingenious section of his
crimes, have complained that white-collar criminals average survey, Browder shows through brother Laurance's daughter,
computations that prominent Laura, ponied ,up $30,000. And
the courts made examples of a little more than two yeari
in white-collar defendants aver- two of David Rockefellets
them. Others point out the for- prison regardless of how
much age about one year for every $10 daughters, Abby and Peggy,
mer Vice President Spiro-T. Ag- they steal. About
20 per cent get million they steal. He also found gave $5,000 and $2,000 respecnew and former Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst off with no prison time at all some $800 million in thefts, tively.
escaped prison sentences for through fines, probation or sus- stock swindles and other The film cost $200,000. So fa ,
crimes that cost less-favored pended , sentences. Many are dodges, which had been pun- the Rockefeller women hake
able to delay cases almost indef- ished only with fines, probation gotten back $32,000 of their $3T,men their liberty:
initely, sometimes until they are and suspended sentences.
000 investment.
Now a McNeil Island convict dropped.
Although abashed that we had
In
contrast,
bank
robbers
who
named Edward Browder has Major Mafia figures and top
learned of his Rockefeller figot
away with a few thousand nancing, the producer
sent us proof that it helps to be a labor hoodlums get an even
of "Milgoverninent bigwig, Mafia don, kindlier break from the judges. dollars averaged 11-year sen- house," Emile de Antonio, retences,
five times longer in the luctantly confirmed' that tlie
labor leader or White House in- Their prison terms average
simmer than bank embezzlers nieces put up the money. He
timate at sentencing time.
about two years, with almost 40 Who got
away with millions
said he did not want any inferThe 57-year-old Browder pres- per cent getting no prison senented us with a four-inch-thick tences. Only narcotics sen- Footnote: Browder cites a few ence that the money came from
survey entitled "A Study of tences are consistently stiff.
exceptions including Billie Sol the senior Rockefellers.
White Collar Offenses Involving Among the examples cited by Estes, the fertilizer king, who "As far as I know it was a toPoliticians, Bankers, Business- Browder was Mafia don Angelo did six years, and Tino de An- tally individual thing," de Antomen and the Professional Swin- (Gyp) DeCarlo, who drew a 12- gelis, the salad oil swindler, nio said.
dler, Promoter, Labor Union year sentence but was freed by who served seven. Browder also His "Millhouse" told in facRacketeer, Organized Criminal President Nixon after only 18 feels, obviously, that his own 25- tual, but stinging detail the
story • of Mr. Nixon's cliinb tb
Offenders."
- onths.
year sentence is excessive.
Browder is good at statistics, The survey also cites a host of Although his findings are re- power. It so infuriated the
as a former manipulator of pil- bigwigs who wound up with less stricted to the federal courts, White House that the "plumfered stocks. He has also had than two years or, in some cases, our sources say that the discrim- hers" were sicced on de AntOnio, and an FBI check was rult
plenty of time to conduct his no jail at all. Among them were ination in sentences
is often on him.
survey at McNeil Island where former Rep. John Dowdy (D- worse in state courts.
.1974, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.*
y jack Anderson