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Orleans PRManiBribe CaseCNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A public relations man was in jail today on charges of influence peddling in behalf of a convicted abortionist. Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison injected the name of Gov. Jimmie Davis in the case.Garrison’s agents arrested the public relations man, Joseph Hegeman, on a street in the French Quarter Thursday night. Hegeman, 35, listed his home as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Hegeman was booked on charges of theft by misrepresentation, public bribery and corrupt influencing.Garrison said the charges grew out of evidence that Hegeman bilked Mrs. Juliette Pailet, 55, a convicted abortionist, of $3,000 on a promise he could keep her case from coming to trial.IbJUST ONEThe arrest came barely hours after Mrs. Pailet appeared as a surprise witness at a grand jury session.At about the same time, Gov. Davis announced an executive reprieve for Mrs. Pailet, who was in jail awaiting an appeal of her conviction.Davis described the reprieve as an “act of human kindness,” saying he granted it solely because of evidence she needs medical attention. He said the i reprieve would not affect the 7-year sentence she faces.Garrison called for an investigation of the reprieve.In a formal statement he said:“The Pailet abortion case has been marked by strange pressures and implications of corrupt influencing and public bribery. |Hegeman’s apparent receipt;of money from Mrs. Pailet to ‘take care of the case’ is just one of those strange occurrences.”The reprieve from Gov. Davis, he said, is the “latest in a strange series of acts connected with the Pailet case.”lt; i
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Monroe News Star
Monroe, Louisiana, US
Fri, Oct 18, 1963
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Columbia U.
NY, USA 12 Sep 2020
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