The Nation - News from Dec. 16, 1988
The government’s mail fraud and tax case against political maverick Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and six associates went to a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., for a determination of whether they lied to get millions of dollars in loans. Assistant U.S. Atty. Kent Robinson said lenders were “bled dry” by the extremist Democrat and his fund-raisers, who he said made false promises of high interest rates to borrow more than $30 million they did not intend to repay.
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