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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Industrialist Bernard Goldfine convicted in federal court in Boston of criminal contempt for failing to produce textile mill records in a tax probe. Simultaneously, he pleaded innocent in Washington to a contempt of Congress indictment over refusing to disclose financial dealings, including gifts to former aide Sherman Adams, who denied wrongdoing and resigned.
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BOSTON, (AP) - Industrialist Bernard Goldfine was convicted in federal court today of criminal contempt for failure to comply with the court's order to produce records of one of his textile mills in a tax probe.
About the same time Judge Charles Wyzanski was filing his decision in Boston, the 67-year-old Goldfine was pleading innocent in Washington to a contempt of Congress indictment.
Goldfine is accused of flouting Congress by refusing to tell House investigators enough about his financial dealings.
In the Washington hearing it was brought out Goldfine had made gifts to former Presidential aide Sherman Adams and other public officials. Adams denied there was any wrongdoing in the matter. He subsequently resigned his White House post.
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convicted of criminal contempt in boston; pleaded innocent to contempt of congress in washington; sherman adams resigned his white house post.
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Industrialist Bernard Goldfine was convicted in federal court in Boston of criminal contempt for failure to comply with the court's order to produce records of one of his textile mills in a tax probe. About the same time, the 67-year-old Goldfine was pleading innocent in Washington to a contempt of Congress indictment. Goldfine is accused of flouting Congress by refusing to tell House investigators enough about his financial dealings. In the Washington hearing it was brought out Goldfine had made gifts to former Presidential aide Sherman Adams and other public officials. Adams denied there was any wrongdoing in the matter.