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St. Petersburg Times
February 21 1973
Page 28
SUIT CHALLENGES WIRETAP STATUTE
MIAMI – Rev. Temperance Wright. One of 100 persons whose telephone conversations were monitored in a probe of allegations corruption in Dade County Courts, has filed suite challenging the constitutionally of Florida’s wiretap statuette.
The suit, filed in Federal Court also asks $2 million in damages from a list of officials including Gov, Reubin Askew, Dade County Sheriff Wilson Purdy, Miami Police Chief Bernard Garmire and Douglas McMillan chief of US Justice Department strike force in Miami.
In addition damages and the constitutional challenge the suit asks an injunction to block any proceedings including grand jury proceedings based on the results of the wiretaps of conversations on the telephone behind of the scenes political figure Frank Martin.
Although the contents of wiretaps involving Wright have not been revealed, Circuit Judge Murray Goodman, whose conversations with Martin were also recorded, has conceded that he discussed a case involving sex offender with Wright at Martins Service Station.
END.
St. Petersburg Times
February 5 1973
Page 31
30 DADE POLITICAL FIGURES GET BOTICE OF WIRETAPS
Miami – Dade County decetives conducting an investigation into possible corruption in county courts have served formal wiretap noticed on more than 30 persons, including Miami’s Mayor, the State Attorney, nine judges and one county commissioner.
All were listened in on while taking over the telephone last year to Frank Martin, 71, one of the probes chief targeted in what investigators believe to be widespread fixing of criminal cases and over government matters.
Those served in the formal notices by sheriff’s deputies Saturday included Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, Maimi Mayor David Kennedy, County Commissioner Joyce Goldberg, Hialeah Mayor Henry Milander, Circuit Court Judges Ehea Grossman, Murray Goodman, Thomas Testa, Al Sepe, Ellen Morphonios Rowe, Jack Turner, David Goodhart and County Judges Arthur Maginnis and Robert Deehll.
THOSE NOTIFED of wiretapping may petition a court to examine tape recordings of their conversations so they can challenge their validity, Under state laws, notification that one has been monitored through a wiretap implies no guilt.
Gertstein has been replaced in the wide ranging investigation by Volusia County State Atty. Stephen Boyles. The Dad County prosecutor declined to comment on the wire tap notification.
Gerstein told the Miami Herald, however, that the probe includes s a study of the disposition of a narcotics case by Circuit Judge Turner.
TURNER sentenced Carlos Pinto, 22, of Miami, to 18 months in prison on guilty please to conspiracy and selling marijuana to undercover agents. Later, Pinto’s legal records show, Turner freed the convict from prison and ordered a new trial.
The Herald said neither the prosecution nor Pinto’s private attorneys had asked that the ase be reposend and Pinto himself had requested no relief from his sentence.
Gerstein said he was excluded from the investigation because of his longstanding association with Martin, a veteran Dade County political figure.
Mayors Kennedy and Milander also said they knew Martin and had talked with him on the telephone, but they denied those conversations involved any improper activities.
END.
St. Petersburg Times
February 21 1973
Page 28
SUIT CHALLENGES WIRETAP STATUTE
MIAMI – Rev. Temperance Wright. One of 100 persons whose telephone conversations were monitored in a probe of allegations corruption in Dade County Courts, has filed suite challenging the constitutionally of Florida’s wiretap statuette.
The suit, filed in Federal Court also asks $2 million in damages from a list of officials including Gov, Reubin Askew, Dade County Sheriff Wilson Purdy, Miami Police Chief Bernard Garmire and Douglas McMillan chief of US Justice Department strike force in Miami.
In addition damages and the constitutional challenge the suit asks an injunction to block any proceedings including grand jury proceedings based on the results of the wiretaps of conversations on the telephone behind of the scenes political figure Frank Martin.
Although the contents of wiretaps involving Wright have not been revealed, Circuit Judge Murray Goodman, whose conversations with Martin were also recorded, has conceded that he discussed a case involving sex offender with Wright at Martins Service Station.
END.
Time Magazine
Busting Public Servants
Monday, Apr. 23, 1973
MIAMI. Circuit Judge Murray Goodman was indicted for conspiracy to accept a bribe after he reversed his own sentence and put a child molester on probation.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945222-1,00.html
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 11 1973
Page 29
2 HAVE YET TO SURRENDER TYO DADE PROBE
DELAND – Fruit wholesales Fred Azrack, on eof fur persons indicted on perjury charges in a Dade Cunyy corruption investigation Tuesday became the second to surrender o Volusia County authorities.
His appearance at the county jail came as Volusia County Circuit Judge Jams T. Nelson, presiding over the grand jury investigation extended until today the deadline for the two remaining persons to appear.
Their idenites were withheld pending their surrender
Azrack, whose business is in Miami’s Farmers Market drove from Miami witth his lawyer, Harold Mendelow. Azrack is a friend of Frank Martin, a Dade County political insider know as the “Mayor of the market.”
Last week the grand jury indicted Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Circuit Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner; Rev. Temperance L. Wright, a leaser in Miami’s black community; and Mina Pinto Davidson, mother of a youth convicted of a drug violation, on bribery-conspiracy charges.
In a related development, Volusia State Atty Stepehn Boyles, directing the investigation at Gov. Reubin Askew’s request , said he will confer soon with Dade detectives before deciding whom to summon as witnesses in the second phase of the grand jury’s investigation, which is to begin April 24.
END.
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 12 1973
Page 3
DELAND – Chief Justice Judge Thomas Kee, Jr. flew to Tallahassee yesterday and requested that a judge from outside Dade be assigned to try the bribery-conspiracy cases.
Lee said he was making the request because two Dade County judges are involved in the case.
The Volusia County Grand Jury last week returned bribery and conspiracy charges against several persons, including Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner.
Goodman and three other persons were also charged with perjury resulting from testimony before the grand jury. The grand jury indictments centered on information gained during wiretaps on the telephone of Miami political insider Frank Martin.
Martin was also indicted.
END
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 12 1973
Last Two Surrender In Corruption Probe
April 12 1973
Page 38
DELAND – The last two persons wante3d on perjury indictments in the Dade County corruption investigation surrendered Wednesday to Volusia County authorities. Alton Trotter, a truck driver, and Kitty Carbonaro turned themselves in a the county jail. They were released on $1,000 bond.
The perjury indictment against Trotter charged him with lying about giving Miami political leader Frank Martin money during a meeting July 18 1972.
Trotter and Mrs. Carbonaro testified before the Volusia County Grand Jury that returned bribery and conspiracy charges last Friday against Martin, Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Dade County Circuit Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner and two others.
END.
THE EVEING INDEPENDENT
AUGUST 25 1973
Page 2
3 MORE ACQUITTED IN DADE
MIAMI – Three more persons indicted in connection with alleged corruption in the Dae County Court system have been acquitted of bribery and conspiracy charges.
Circuit Court Judge Murray Goodman, political insider Frank martin and Rev. Temperance Wright were found innocent yesterday after a week long trial. The jury deliberation took 53 minutes.
Martin and Wright were accused of conspiring to offer a bride to Goodman to influence his decision in a case concerning convicted sex offender Alton Trotter. Goodman was charged with conspiring to accept the bride.
END.
There other persons indicted following the investigationin which Martin’s phone was tapped were found innocment last week.
They were Mimai Mayor Davide Kennedy, Circuit Judge Jack Turner and Mina Davidson.
Martin also wea tried with Kenndy and Mrs, Davidwon and acquitted.
END.
St Petersburg Times (Florida)
August 25 1973
Around Florida Quickly Column
Page 28
3 FOUND INNOCENT IN BRIBERY TRIAL
Miami- - Dade County Circuit Judge Murray Goodman and tow co-defendants were found innocent Friday of bribery and conspiracy charges.
A jury of eight men and four women voted to aquit Goodman, political insider Frank Martin and Rev. Temperance Wright after the defense rested its case without calling witnesses.
Martin and Wright were accused of conspiring to offer a bribe to Goodman to influence his decision in a case concerning sex offender Alton Trotter. Goodman was charged with conspiring to accept the bribe.
END.
February 21 1973
Page 28
SUIT CHALLENGES WIRETAP STATUTE
MIAMI – Rev. Temperance Wright. One of 100 persons whose telephone conversations were monitored in a probe of allegations corruption in Dade County Courts, has filed suite challenging the constitutionally of Florida’s wiretap statuette.
The suit, filed in Federal Court also asks $2 million in damages from a list of officials including Gov, Reubin Askew, Dade County Sheriff Wilson Purdy, Miami Police Chief Bernard Garmire and Douglas McMillan chief of US Justice Department strike force in Miami.
In addition damages and the constitutional challenge the suit asks an injunction to block any proceedings including grand jury proceedings based on the results of the wiretaps of conversations on the telephone behind of the scenes political figure Frank Martin.
Although the contents of wiretaps involving Wright have not been revealed, Circuit Judge Murray Goodman, whose conversations with Martin were also recorded, has conceded that he discussed a case involving sex offender with Wright at Martins Service Station.
END.
St. Petersburg Times
February 5 1973
Page 31
30 DADE POLITICAL FIGURES GET BOTICE OF WIRETAPS
Miami – Dade County decetives conducting an investigation into possible corruption in county courts have served formal wiretap noticed on more than 30 persons, including Miami’s Mayor, the State Attorney, nine judges and one county commissioner.
All were listened in on while taking over the telephone last year to Frank Martin, 71, one of the probes chief targeted in what investigators believe to be widespread fixing of criminal cases and over government matters.
Those served in the formal notices by sheriff’s deputies Saturday included Dade County State Attorney Richard Gerstein, Maimi Mayor David Kennedy, County Commissioner Joyce Goldberg, Hialeah Mayor Henry Milander, Circuit Court Judges Ehea Grossman, Murray Goodman, Thomas Testa, Al Sepe, Ellen Morphonios Rowe, Jack Turner, David Goodhart and County Judges Arthur Maginnis and Robert Deehll.
THOSE NOTIFED of wiretapping may petition a court to examine tape recordings of their conversations so they can challenge their validity, Under state laws, notification that one has been monitored through a wiretap implies no guilt.
Gertstein has been replaced in the wide ranging investigation by Volusia County State Atty. Stephen Boyles. The Dad County prosecutor declined to comment on the wire tap notification.
Gerstein told the Miami Herald, however, that the probe includes s a study of the disposition of a narcotics case by Circuit Judge Turner.
TURNER sentenced Carlos Pinto, 22, of Miami, to 18 months in prison on guilty please to conspiracy and selling marijuana to undercover agents. Later, Pinto’s legal records show, Turner freed the convict from prison and ordered a new trial.
The Herald said neither the prosecution nor Pinto’s private attorneys had asked that the ase be reposend and Pinto himself had requested no relief from his sentence.
Gerstein said he was excluded from the investigation because of his longstanding association with Martin, a veteran Dade County political figure.
Mayors Kennedy and Milander also said they knew Martin and had talked with him on the telephone, but they denied those conversations involved any improper activities.
END.
St. Petersburg Times
February 21 1973
Page 28
SUIT CHALLENGES WIRETAP STATUTE
MIAMI – Rev. Temperance Wright. One of 100 persons whose telephone conversations were monitored in a probe of allegations corruption in Dade County Courts, has filed suite challenging the constitutionally of Florida’s wiretap statuette.
The suit, filed in Federal Court also asks $2 million in damages from a list of officials including Gov, Reubin Askew, Dade County Sheriff Wilson Purdy, Miami Police Chief Bernard Garmire and Douglas McMillan chief of US Justice Department strike force in Miami.
In addition damages and the constitutional challenge the suit asks an injunction to block any proceedings including grand jury proceedings based on the results of the wiretaps of conversations on the telephone behind of the scenes political figure Frank Martin.
Although the contents of wiretaps involving Wright have not been revealed, Circuit Judge Murray Goodman, whose conversations with Martin were also recorded, has conceded that he discussed a case involving sex offender with Wright at Martins Service Station.
END.
Time Magazine
Busting Public Servants
Monday, Apr. 23, 1973
MIAMI. Circuit Judge Murray Goodman was indicted for conspiracy to accept a bribe after he reversed his own sentence and put a child molester on probation.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945222-1,00.html
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 11 1973
Page 29
2 HAVE YET TO SURRENDER TYO DADE PROBE
DELAND – Fruit wholesales Fred Azrack, on eof fur persons indicted on perjury charges in a Dade Cunyy corruption investigation Tuesday became the second to surrender o Volusia County authorities.
His appearance at the county jail came as Volusia County Circuit Judge Jams T. Nelson, presiding over the grand jury investigation extended until today the deadline for the two remaining persons to appear.
Their idenites were withheld pending their surrender
Azrack, whose business is in Miami’s Farmers Market drove from Miami witth his lawyer, Harold Mendelow. Azrack is a friend of Frank Martin, a Dade County political insider know as the “Mayor of the market.”
Last week the grand jury indicted Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Circuit Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner; Rev. Temperance L. Wright, a leaser in Miami’s black community; and Mina Pinto Davidson, mother of a youth convicted of a drug violation, on bribery-conspiracy charges.
In a related development, Volusia State Atty Stepehn Boyles, directing the investigation at Gov. Reubin Askew’s request , said he will confer soon with Dade detectives before deciding whom to summon as witnesses in the second phase of the grand jury’s investigation, which is to begin April 24.
END.
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 12 1973
Page 3
DELAND – Chief Justice Judge Thomas Kee, Jr. flew to Tallahassee yesterday and requested that a judge from outside Dade be assigned to try the bribery-conspiracy cases.
Lee said he was making the request because two Dade County judges are involved in the case.
The Volusia County Grand Jury last week returned bribery and conspiracy charges against several persons, including Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner.
Goodman and three other persons were also charged with perjury resulting from testimony before the grand jury. The grand jury indictments centered on information gained during wiretaps on the telephone of Miami political insider Frank Martin.
Martin was also indicted.
END
ST PETERSBURG TIMES
APRIL 12 1973
Last Two Surrender In Corruption Probe
April 12 1973
Page 38
DELAND – The last two persons wante3d on perjury indictments in the Dade County corruption investigation surrendered Wednesday to Volusia County authorities. Alton Trotter, a truck driver, and Kitty Carbonaro turned themselves in a the county jail. They were released on $1,000 bond.
The perjury indictment against Trotter charged him with lying about giving Miami political leader Frank Martin money during a meeting July 18 1972.
Trotter and Mrs. Carbonaro testified before the Volusia County Grand Jury that returned bribery and conspiracy charges last Friday against Martin, Miami Mayor David Kennedy, Dade County Circuit Judges Murray Goodman and Jack Turner and two others.
END.
THE EVEING INDEPENDENT
AUGUST 25 1973
Page 2
3 MORE ACQUITTED IN DADE
MIAMI – Three more persons indicted in connection with alleged corruption in the Dae County Court system have been acquitted of bribery and conspiracy charges.
Circuit Court Judge Murray Goodman, political insider Frank martin and Rev. Temperance Wright were found innocent yesterday after a week long trial. The jury deliberation took 53 minutes.
Martin and Wright were accused of conspiring to offer a bride to Goodman to influence his decision in a case concerning convicted sex offender Alton Trotter. Goodman was charged with conspiring to accept the bride.
END.
There other persons indicted following the investigationin which Martin’s phone was tapped were found innocment last week.
They were Mimai Mayor Davide Kennedy, Circuit Judge Jack Turner and Mina Davidson.
Martin also wea tried with Kenndy and Mrs, Davidwon and acquitted.
END.
St Petersburg Times (Florida)
August 25 1973
Around Florida Quickly Column
Page 28
3 FOUND INNOCENT IN BRIBERY TRIAL
Miami- - Dade County Circuit Judge Murray Goodman and tow co-defendants were found innocent Friday of bribery and conspiracy charges.
A jury of eight men and four women voted to aquit Goodman, political insider Frank Martin and Rev. Temperance Wright after the defense rested its case without calling witnesses.
Martin and Wright were accused of conspiring to offer a bribe to Goodman to influence his decision in a case concerning sex offender Alton Trotter. Goodman was charged with conspiring to accept the bribe.
END.