On June 5th in US Political History
Part IV
Part IV
On June 5th in 1996 Joseph Waldholtz, the ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Enid Greene, R-Utah, pled guilty to providing his wife false information for her taxes and to falsifying spending reports from her congressional campaign.
On June 5th in 1996 A Medicare report predicted that the federal health system for the elderly would be bankrupt by the year 2001.
On June 5th in 1997 Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against his own country, was sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War. Officials later claimed that he and his son continued to make contact with Russian operatives. In 2009 Nicholson and his son were arraigned on charges of money laundering and acting as agents of a foreign government.
(AP, 6/5/98)(WSJ, 1/30/08, p.A3)
On June 5th in 2000 President Clinton met with Pres. Kuchma in Ukraine and Kuchma announced the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant by Dec 15. Clinton pledged $80 million to help pay the $750 million cost to stabilize the sarcophagus of the ruined reactor.
On June 5th in Jun 5, President Bush sent George Tenet, the CIA director, to help Middle East security talks.
On June 5th in 2001 Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld visited Macedonia as Albanian rebels clashed with government troops near Tetovo.
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