Conflict of Interest: Hearings Before Antitrust Subcommittee (subcommittee No. 5) of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, Conduct in Office of Robert Tieken, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. June 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 23, 1958

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Committee Serial No. 17. Investigates charges that US attorney Robert Tieken used his subpoena power and the threat of a grand jury investigation against Illinois state highway officials who had brought land condemnation suits against Tieken.
 

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