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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
DATE: Wednesday, June 5, 1985
PAGE: 1F EDITION: Stock Final
SECTION: LENGTH: 17 in. Medium
SOURCE: By DAVID WILLMAN AND ARMANDO ACUNA Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
DATELINE: Sacramento
TWO LEGISLATORS UNDER INVESTIGATION IN MORIARTY POLITICAL*CORRUPTION*
CASE
Investigators from the FBI and the Orange County District Attorney's Office
are interviewing state officials here in connection with the W. Patrick
Moriarty political*corruption* case.
At least two legislators -- Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Frank Vicencia, a
Bellflower Democrat, and Sen. Daniel E. Boatwright, a Contra Costa County
Democrat -- are targets of the investigation, according to sources familiar
with the case.
The Mercury News has reported that Boatwright and Vicencia joined
business enterprises controlled in part by Moriarty, a major contributor to
statewide political campaigns, after the lawmakers voted for a controversial
bill that Moriarty promoted in 1982.
The bill would have stripped cities of their authority to ban sales of
''safe and sane'' sparklers, pinwheels and cones that Moriarty manufactured
and distributed through his Red Devil-brand fireworks. The bill passed both
houses of the Legislature but was vetoed by then-Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Neither Boatwright nor Vicencia returned calls to their offices Tuesday.
But an aide to Vicencia said she was unaware of any law enforcement contact.
Sources familiar with the probe said 10 investigators are interviewing
officials in connection with the case. The investigation, they said,
continues to focus on Moriarty's associations with state and local government
officials throughout California.
Moriarty, 53, an Orange County resident who built a financial and
political power base through Red Devil, pleaded guilty to
federal*corruption*charges March 12. The case centered originally on
Moriarty's bribing of officials in the Los Angeles suburb of City of Commerce
to obtain a license for a poker parlor.
However, Moriarty, who faces a maximum prison term of 35 years, pledged to
cooperate in an expanded statewide investigation.
According to his own admissions in court and statements in interviews with
his business associates, Moriarty gave state and local officials -- including
Gov. George Deukmejian, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy
and Senate President Pro Tem David*Roberti* -- hundreds of thousands of
dollars of illegal contributions, donated in the names of intermediaries.
Aides to Deukmejian, McCarthy and*Roberti*said Tuesday their bosses have
not been contacted by investigators. Brown's press secretary, Monica Neville,
said she could not respond because she was unable to ask the speaker about
the matter.
In April, McCarthy returned $10,000 he received for his 1982 campaign
that was donated in the name of John E. ''Pete'' Murphy, a former business
partner of Moriarty's. Deukmejian, Brown and*Roberti*have not returned their
total contributions of $17,000, $23,000 and $2,500, respectively, from Murphy
and two other business associates of Moriarty's -- Richard Raymond Keith and
Albert Hole, a former state fire marshal.
Democratic Assemblyman Rusty Areias, who represents South San Jose, has
returned $3,000 donated by Murphy. Areias, who has said he returned the
contribution because he concluded that the money was actually Moriarty's, did
not return phone calls.
Moriarty also said he provided officials, including Assembly Democratic
floor leader Mike Roos and then- Assemblyman Bruce Young, who is now a
lobbyist in Sacramento, with the services of prostitutes. Young and Roos have
denied the allegation.
He also is believed to have supplied furniture, low- interest bank loans,
vacation housing and the use of a car to public officials who have not been
identified.
END OF DOCUMENT.