The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1986
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A lawyer for political groups of radical politician Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. denied a New Jersey bank’s charges of racketeering through unauthorized use of credit cards for the 1984 LaRouche presidential campaign. Attorney William Cagney called the allegations by First Fidelity Bank of Newark “totally without any legal merit.” The bank filed suit last week, accusing LaRouche and his organization of swindling the bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fake credit card contributions to the campaign.
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