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James M. Turner (1928-1981) —
of Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born November
8, 1928.
Republican. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly District 3-B; elected 1969;
member of New
Jersey state senate District 3-A, 1972-73; removed 1973;
defeated, 1973 (3rd District); convicted
in 1973 of accepting a $10,000 bribe
to "fix" a stolen property case, and conspiring to frame
Assemblyman Kenneth
A. Gewertz, by planting narcotics in his home and his car.
Died July 20,
1981 (age 52 years, 254
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Otis O'Neal Horsley Jr. (1944-2015) —
also known as Neal Horsley —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga.
Born in Bremen, Haralson
County, Ga., April
15, 1944.
Convicted
in 1973 of drug possession with intent to distribute, over
three gallons of hashish oil, and served a sentence in federal prison;
creator of a "Nuremburg Files", an anti-abortion website which listed
home addresses and other details about many abortion providers;
information from the site helped militant anti-abortionist James
Charles Kopp track down and kill
Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998; Horsley's web site was later ruled to be
a threat,
and not protected by the First Amendment; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 2010.
Died in Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga., April
13, 2015 (age 70 years, 363
days).
Cremated.
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Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) —
also known as Frederick W. Richmond; Fred
Richmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, November
15, 1923.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1975-82.
Jewish.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting
sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor. In 1982, charged
with tax
evasion, marijuana possession, and improper
payments to a federal employee, he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced
to a year and a day in prison;
served nine months.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Vandalia, Cass
County, Mich., March
20, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District
1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;
in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him
several times, and exchanged
sex for marijuana and cocaine; arrested
November 8, 1985; pleaded
guilty in 1987 and resigned
from the Senate; sentenced
to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also
suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
NAACP.
Injured in a fire at his
home, while also suffering cancer,
and died two weeks later, in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1997 (age 70 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James E. Roark (b. 1945) —
also known as Mike Roark; "Mad
Dog" —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Nitro, Kanawha
County, W.Va., 1945.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
lawyer;
mayor
of Charleston, W.Va., 1983-87; resigned 1987.
Indicted
in August, 1987, on felony charges of possessing and distributing
cocaine, and conspiring to obstruct
the investigation
by inducing a witness to commit perjury;
pleaded
guilty to misdemeanors in November, and resigned
as mayor.
Still living as of 1987.
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Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
14, 1939.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66; member of Maryland
state senate District 10, 1967-86; Indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of obstructing
an investigation of Baltimore drug dealer Melvin D. 'Little
Melvin' Williams, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
charged
in 1988 with failure to file income
tax returns; tried
and acquitted.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Freemasons;
Jaycees.
Still living as of 1988.
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Róger Calero (b. 1969) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Nicaragua,
1969.
Socialist. Not U.S. citizen; meat packer;
journalist;
convicted
of sale of marijuana, 1988; arrested
in 2002, at the Houston airport, while returning from Cuba, and jailed,
while deportation
proceedings were started, but released in 2003; Socialist Workers
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004, 2008; Socialist Workers candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 2010.
Nicaraguan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Marion S. Barry Jr. (1936-2014) —
also known as Marion Barry —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Itta Bena, Leflore
County, Miss., March 6,
1936.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1972
(alternate), 1980,
1988
(speaker),
1996;
mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1979-91, 1995-99; convicted
in 1990 of misdemeanor cocaine possession after being caught
on videotape smoking crack cocaine; sentenced
to six months in prison.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 2014 (age 78 years, 262
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Richard Imbrecht (1949-2000) —
also known as Charles R. Imbrecht —
of Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif., February
4, 1949.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 36th District, 1976-82; candidate for California
state senate 18th District, 1982.
Lutheran.
Pleaded
guilty in 1997 to charges
of drunk
driving
and marijuana possession and served one month in jail.
Died, apparently from a heart
attack, in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
18, 2000 (age 50 years, 348
days).
Interment at Ivy
Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Earl Richard Imbrecht and Hazel Victoria (Berg) Imbrecht; married,
September
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city
commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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John M. Fabrizi (born c.1957) —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born about 1957.
Democrat. School
teacher; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 2000;
mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 2003-07; admitted
in June 2006 that he had used cocaine, and did not seek
re-election.
Still living as of 2007.
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Nick Severson (born c.1983) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born about 1983.
Pleaded
guilty in May 2010 to a misdemeanor
charge of ingesting marijuana, and fined $500; candidate
for mayor
of Vermillion, S.Dak., 2010.
Still living as of 2010.
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