Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 29, 1973 (2/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 29, 1973 (2/2)
[01.09.24-DEAN discusses why he thought CRP finance chairman Maurice STANS might have criminal problems with WATERGATE] Mr. DEAN. Well; this was based on--first of all, you will note on the list I have question marks beside certain people. On some of those people, I knew what I knew, I knew what evidence I had in my mind of their own involvement. I didn't know about Stans, I didn't know how involved he had or had not been. For that reason, I put a question mark beside his name because I hadn't had any direct dealings with him that would indicate it, but there were certain circumstantial situations and I was not sure. So that is why the question marks on some of these. [01.10.09] Mr. DASH. Now, Mr. Dean, just going back very briefly to the testimony concerning the $15,200 which had been given to you by Mr. Strachan, Mr. Howard and Mr. Strachan, that you put in your Safe. And the fact that you had taken from that an amount of about $4,800 Mr. DEAN. $4,850. Mr. DASH. $4,850 for your own personal use? Mr. DEAN. That is correct. Mr. DASH. I think this has not been brought out in the testimony and I would like to ask you this question. [01.10.43] Can you tell the committee when was the first time you told anybody about your removing $4,850? Mr. DEAN. When I first went, to my lawyer, sometime shortly after I had gotten through an explanation of all the facts that I knew, I got into this particular problem and raised that with him. Mr. DASH. Therefore, he was the first one in the world, so to speak, who first learned about your doing that? Mr. DEAN. That is correct. [01.11.16-DASH repudiates GURNEY'S tactic of beating the dead horse of what DEAN did with the campaign money in his trust, establishes that DEAN was not being deceitful with respect to the money] Mr. DASH. If you had -wanted to conceal that--if you were, interested in, using the, term that has been used here, embezzle', if you had wanted to conceal your use of that money, could you not just, as well, before telling your lawyer about that, have replaced that money and told your lawyer that you had $15,200 in the safe? Mr. DEAN. Yes, I could have. Mr. DASH. Why, then, did you tell your lawyer about it? Mr. DEAN. Because I thought that would be an untruthful thing to do and I thought I would tell him the facts the way they were. Mr. Dash, I might also add that I asked my lawyer to go to the Government with this information right away, so they knew that. Mr. DASH. Mr. Dean, I think it is important that we discuss that and the fact that your lawyer and you opened up a trustee account and deposited the full $15,200, which -was the balance left, in the, safe of the cash plus your own personal check of $4,850, which you replaced the original check with, so that you made it whole. Mr. Chairman. I would like to give some photostatic copies we have of that transaction to Mr., Dean if he could identify them for us. Mr. DEAN'. You want me to identify these for the record? Mr. DASH. Would you, for the record?, Mr. DEAN. This document, dated April 24, is a, letter from Mr. Shaffer. Another document is a chock dated April 12, 1973, written out to Mr. Hogan and Mr. Shaffer, trustees, for $4,850, and signed by myself. There IS a, receipt written out. by Mr. Shaffer of that, amount--no, it is for the full amount, I take that back. I can't even read the -writing here. It indicates the full amount. There is a cashier's check written out for $10.350. Mr. DASH. What does that cashier's check represent? Mr. DEAN. It is drawn on the Suburban Trust Co. It represents the cash that was deposited at that account. There are, signature cards that were Prepared with Mr. Hogan being stricken and Mr. McKeever being replaced on that as a trustee as a result of Mr. Hogan having to withdraw from the case, for other reasons. Then there are additional signature cards. It looks like on the next document, there is a repeat of the earlier document for the Suburban Trust check. The numbers are the same at the top, so we have already identified that, check. Then there is a subsequently issued check when Mr. Hogan withdrew from the case and it was necessary to put Mr. McKeever on a new check so that a new check drawn by me to the order of Mr. Shaffer and Mr. McKeever for $4,850. The next appears to be endorsements on the back of these checks; and a, signature card. Mr. DASH. Will you read the letter for the committee, please? [01.15.26]