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ABSCAM
5 IN ABSCAM SENTENCED TO PRISON -      ERRICHETTI DRAWS STIFFEST PENALTY: 6 YEARS PLUS FINE -- Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)-August 14, 1981 Author: JANE EISNER

By Jane Eisner Inquirer Staff Writer NEW YORK - Three former congressmen, the former mayor of Camden and a       Philadelphia city councilman yesterday became the first defendants sentenced to prison as a result of the FBI's Abscam investigation. U.S. District Judge George C. Pratt set the stiffest punishment - six years in prison and a $40,000 fine - for former Camden Mayor Angelo J. Errichetti, whom he had singled out as a ringleader in the political corruption cases. Pratt handed out sentences of three years' imprisonment and fines of $20,000 to the three former congressmen, Raymond F. Lederer and Michael J. " Ozzie" Myers, both Philadelphia Democrats, and John M. Murphy, a New York Democrat, and to Philadelphia City Councilman Louis C. Johanson. The sentences were stayed until appeals in the cases are heard. All of the men said they would appeal to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in       Manhattan. Pratt postponed sentencing former Rep. Frank Thompson, Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, until the potential effect of a prison term on his heart condition could be fully assessed. Thompson's lawyer read a medical report compiled earlier this year that contended that imprisonment " might well kill" Thompson, 63, who underwent heart surgery in 1965. Pratt, who had presided at the defendants' jury trials, spoke very little before he announced the sentences, although in the past he has been sharply critical of the defendants' arguments that they had been entrapped by the FBI's undercover investigation of political corruption. " Sitting where I do, I always consider it a privilege to hear a case,       " Pratt told the hushed, crowded courtroom. " Only when I come to a day like       today do I consider it a misfortune." The two-hour proceeding took place in the same Brooklyn federal courthouse in which the first Abscam trial was held nearly a year ago. Afterward, the defendants again maintained that they would eventually be vindicated of any wrongdoing. " I'm glad that Phase One is over. Now it's on to Phase Two," a somber- looking Myers, 38, said as he left the courtroom. " I can't be happy that I       was given a term. I'm not happy, I'm not sad." Errichetti, 52, who also is a New Jersey state senator, sat impassively even as the judge handed him a sentence twice as severe as that given to the other defendants in the courtroom. " I feel fine," said Errichetti, who now must give up his seat in the Senate. " I wasn't surprised. I've never been surprised in my life." Errichetti had no comment when asked why he thought his sentence was longer than the others, but his attorney, Raymond Brown, pointed out that the judge had written after an earlier proceeding that Errichetti " was the center of a        cesspool of corruption." Thomas P. Puccio, the government prosecutor, had requested that each defendant be sentenced to " substantial periods of imprisonment." Five of the defendants had been convicted of bribery and conspiracy and could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Murphy was acquitted of       bribery, the more serious charge, and faced a maximum five-  year sentence for his conspiracy conviction. As he left the courtroom, Puccio said he was satisfied. " They are fair and       just sentences," the prosecutor said. " In my view, that's a substantial       period of incarceration." When asked what he planned to do now, Puccio replied: " Go back to Martha's       Vineyard." The future for the defendants is not as definite. Their appeals to the circuit court and, possibly, the U.S. Supreme Court, could take a year or two. They have left public office and have few other sources of income. In       speeches before Pratt yesterday, some of the defense attorneys sought to        dramatize the plight of their clients. As the defendants crowded around a long table, Brown denounced the hearing as " a mass condemnation proceeding" and described Errichetti as " a creature       of abject shame." " If a man has ever been pilloried and flogged in the public mind, if a man       has ever been demeaned in spirit, then this man has suffered. Give him a        sentence that would allow him to walk the streets of Camden," Brown  implored. Myers' attorney, Neil E. Jokelson, was equally dramatic. " He has lived in a       fishbowl, he has been expelled from Congress, he has been disgraced and        embarrassed," Jokelson said. " It seems to me, your honor, that a sentence of years in this case doesn't       add to the public good." Some of the defendants simply expressed their repentance. " Mr. Lederer       asked me to tell the court that he is deeply contrite. He has nothing further        to say and neither do I," said his attorney, James J. Binns. The only Abscam defendant to win re-election after his conviction, Lederer, 42, resigned his Third District seat rather than face expulsion from Congress. John J. Duffy, the attorney representing Johanson, 52, said he had been instructed to express his client's remorse. " He wants to say that he's sorry       to his constituents in Philadelphia, his brothers and sisters on  the City        Council and to his dear friends Ozzie Myers and Ray Lederer. He believes in        retrospect that he acted the fool," Duffy said. Thompson's attorney, Stephen Kaufman, read excerpts from several letters of       praise written by colleagues of the 26-year congressional veteran, including one from former President Gerald R. Ford. Murphy, 55, who did not testify at his trial in December, was the only defendant to speak before the judge yesterday. He lashed out at " criminal       excesses of Abscam" and contended that the videotapes used at his trial showed him denying that he took any bribe money. Murphy, who represented a       district in Staten Island for 18 years, said he was confident that he would be        absolved. Philadelphia lawyer Howard L. Criden, who was tried with Myers, Erichetti and Johanson last August, was supposed to have been sentenced yesterday, but Pratt delayed sentencing until Oct. 2 because Criden is recovering from a        heart attack. extortion united states Edition: FASection: LOCALPage: A01 Record Number: 8102040962Copyright (c) 1981 The Philadelphia Inquirer

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