Tax evasion
A former American Agriculture (Secretary, Earl Butz, has pleaded guilty to an income tax evasion charge of understating his 1978 income by more than $148,000. Butz, aged 71, faces a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $lO,OOO fine. Butz was appointed Agriculture Secretary in 1971 and served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He resigned in October, 1976, in a furor caused after he made a racial joke in public a month before the presidential election.—Fort Wayne.
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Press, 27 May 1981, Page 13
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