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- CONVICTED. Don Dixon, 52, former owner of Vernon Savings &
- Loan Association, a Texas thrift that collapsed in 1987; of
- fraud for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of Vernon's
- money on rent for a lavish California beach house and on
- prostitutes; by a federal jury in Dallas. Vernon's campaign
- contributions to former House Speaker Jim Wright and to former
- House majority whip Tony Coelho led to charges that Dixon had
- bought influence with them. The S&L scandals helped force their
- resignations last year, but the jury last week acquitted Dixon
- of improper attempts to influence political candidates. Attorney
- General Dick Thornburgh hailed the guilty verdict, calling Dixon
- "the highest of the highflyers among the savings and loan
- crooks."
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