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Page 4-ASan Antonio EXPRESS-NEWS-—Sunday August 3 1975 INEW YORK TIMES SERVICEYORKWilliam S.Lynch has denied accusations made against him by a selfdescribed longtime government informer.Lynch is chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.In an article printed the Sunday Express-News on July 20, the informer, former convict Harry Haller of Los Angeles, said he had told the House Judiciary Committee the Justice Department made a secret deal in 1972 with Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the International Brotherhood ofTeamsters.In the deal, Haller said, the departmentASSOCIATED PRESSBRISSELS. Belgium — Evangelist Billy Graham said Saturday he is convinced the Jesus movement among young people is not just a fad.He said there is a new mood among the young across the world.“This generation is concerned with the world in which we live and they cannot find an answer for its problems in materialism and science. Graham said after ending a 10-day campaign which attracted more than 100.000 people.“They are becoming more spiritually involved, they are asking more religious questions.”His campaign was in connection with a European youth training meeting called “Eurofest ‘75.”agreed to go easy in pressing criminal action against the labor leader’s son and another union official. In exchange, Haller said, Fitzsimmons gave the government evidence the union believed could be used in prosecuting two of Fitzsimmons’s associates for tax fraud.Haller says he told committee staff members Lynch had made terms of the deal and supervised several months of negotiations.“There never was a Justice Department deal involving a promise or agreement to treat leniently Fitzsimmons’s son and another union official,” Lynch said in a letter to The Times, and therefore he did not make any terms or supervise any negotiations.He also denied details of Haller’s allegations specifically, calling them false in form and substance.Lynch’s office was called twice before the article was published to seek his version, but was told Lynch never spoke with the press.Will investigateRobert Stevenson, of the Justice Department’s public information staff, said he had discussed the matter with Lynch. He said there was no comment, and that Lynch did not take the matter seriously.Sources in Washingtonwere quoted in the July 20 article as saying the Judiciary Committee, while it had not obtained corroboration of Haller’s account, planned to investigate the purported deal.
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San Antonio Express News
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 03, 1975
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