The Nation - News from June 20, 1986
A House panel took its first formal step toward the impeachment of convicted federal judge Harry E. Claiborne of Nevada, which Claiborne’s lawyer vows will be a “no-holds-barred” battle. Claiborne attended the day-long hearing but declined to testify before the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on courts. The judge, now serving a two-year sentence at a minimum security federal prison camp, was found guilty in August, 1984, on two counts of tax evasion.
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