Magruder sentenced
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 22. Jeb Stuart Magruder, one of the principals in President Nixon’s re-elec-tion campaign, has been sentenced to serve at least 10 months in prison for helping plan the Watergate break-in, bugging, and cover-up.
Judge John Sirica ordered that Magruder serve a 10-month to fouryear term in a minimum security institution, and gave him until June 4 to surrender himself.
Magruder was the first Nixon confidante publicly to admit his own involvement in Watergate, and the first to publicly accuse others in the cover-up. “My ambition obscured my judgement,” Magruder told Judge Sirica in a brief statement. He said he still did not know how he surrendered, “my moral precepts.” Magruder was the sixth former White House aide to be sentenced to prison. He pleaded guilty on August 16 to a single charge of conspiracy to intercept communications unlawfully, to obstruct justice, and to defraud the United States of America.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33541, 23 May 1974, Page 13
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