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- <text id=90TT0843>
- <title>
- Apr. 02, 1990: Indicted:Thomas Root
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 56
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- <body>
- <p> INDICTED. Thomas Root, 37, the lawyer who was plucked out
- of the ocean last July with a mysterious gunshot wound in his
- abdomen after his single-engine plane ditched in the Atlantic;
- on 33 counts of fraud, forgery and obstruction of justice; in
- Washington. Root claimed he blacked out during a routine flight
- to North Carolina, while his Cessna 210 continued on automatic
- pilot until it ran out of fuel and plunged into the sea near
- the Bahamas. Root claimed his revolver fired accidentally when
- the plane crashed. According to the indictment, Root was being
- investigated at the time of the flight for financial
- irregularities.
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- </body>
- </article>
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