What was the name of the corrupt politician in the CBS series inspired by Moonrunners
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Sorrell Booke Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show "The Dukes of Hazzard".
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The Dukes of Hazzard The Dukes of Hazzard is an American action-comedy television series that aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985. The show aired for a total of 147 episodes spanning seven seasons. The series was inspired by the 1975 film "Moonrunners", which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.
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Alan Sagner Alan Louis Sagner (born September 13, 1920) is an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and philanthropist who served as New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation, as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and as Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Lee–Chang scandal The Lee–Chang scandal (Korean: 이철희 장영자 어음 사기 사건 , "Yi Chol-hui–Jang Yeong-ja eoeumsagi sageon", "Yi Chol-hui–Jang Yeong-ja note fraud incident") was a serious South Korean financial scandal that unfolded in 1982 under the presidency of Chun Doo-hwan. Jang Yeong-ja was a curb market operator who provided industrial firms with loans, demanding notes worth many times the loan's value in return, on condition that the notes would not be resold. In this way, beginning with $7 million saved from the alimonies of her two former husbands, Jang came to personally manipulate almost $1 billion through her underground loan network, or 17% of the entire South Korean money supply. The network was uncovered when one of the firms, whose notes Jang had resold at a discount, complained to the authorities.
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Herbert H. Shaw Herbert H. Shaw (Born February 16, 1930) is an American independent politician, a prominent perennial candidate who has run for office more than 75 times over five decades as an Independent under the "Politicians Are Crooks" banner. Over the years, Shaw has run for United States Senator, U.S. House of Representatives, State Senator, Assemblyman, Hudson County Executive, Hudson County Sheriff, Hudson County Freeholder, North Bergen Commissioner, and the North Bergen Board of Education. He has never received as much as 5% of the vote. "My motive is revenge," Shaw told a reporter in 2011.
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Richard Dickerson Richard "Dick" Dickerson (1937 – September 29, 2014) was an American politician and law enforcement officer.
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Edward C. Banfield Edward Christie Banfield (November 19, 1916 – September 30, 1999) was an American political scientist, best known as the author of "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society" (1958), and "The Unheavenly City" (1970). One of the leading scholars of his generation, Banfield was an adviser to three Republican presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Banfield began his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he was a friend and colleague of Leo Strauss and Milton Friedman.
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Anita Van Buren Lieutenant Anita Van Buren is a fictional character on NBC's long-running police procedural and legal drama television series "Law & Order", portrayed by S. Epatha Merkerson. Van Buren appeared in 390 episodes of "Law & Order". By episode count, she is the longest-running character on the original show. Van Buren appeared in 392 episodes within the franchise (390 of "Law & Order", the "" episode "Badge" and the "" episode "Skeleton") and "", and is the third longest-running regular character in the "Law & Order" franchise, behind Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), and the fourth longest-character in the "Law & Order" universe, behind Benson (410 episodes in ), Cragen (400 episodes in the franchise), and John Munch (Richard Belzer) (246 episodes in the franchise).
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Dwight Chapin Dwight Lee Chapin (born December 2, 1940) is an American political organizer, businessman, and retired public servant. He was Deputy Assistant to the President Richard Nixon, during the Watergate scandal. Chapin was convicted of lying to a grand jury (perjury) during the scandal and served nine months at the Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc.
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Paul Sarbanes Paul Spyros Sarbanes (born February 3, 1933) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party from Maryland he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history until it was surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ended on January 3, 2017.
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Mike Runnels Michael L. "Mike" Runnels (September 11, 1945 – February 5, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer.
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Michael Scanlon Michael Scanlon, a.k.a. "Sean Scanlon", is a former communications director for Rep. Tom DeLay, lobbyist, and public relations executive who has pleaded guilty to corruption charges related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. He is currently assisting in the investigation of his former partners Abramoff, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed by separate state and federal grand jury investigations related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. In addition to the allegation of dishonest dealing arising from the consulting contracts themselves, Abramoff and Scanlon are accused of illegally giving favors to senior Republicans Tom DeLay, Conrad Burns, John Doolittle and Bob Ney. In 2005 Scanlon pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a member of Congress and other public officials. On February 11, 2011, he was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison and 300 hours of community service.
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Emil Mosbacher Emil "Bus" Mosbacher Jr. (April 1, 1922 – August 13, 1997) was a two-time America's Cup-winning yachtsman, the founding chairman of Operation Sail, and Chief of Protocol of the United States during the administration of President Richard Nixon.
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Morgan Clark William Morgan Clark is a fictional character and a major antagonist from the universe of the science fiction television series "Babylon 5", portrayed by Gary McGurk. His character rarely appeared on-screen, but is a major off-screen presence in the show.
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Jim Hacker James George Hacker, Baron Hacker of Islington, KG, PC, BSc (Lond.), Hon. DCL (Oxon.) is a fictional character in the 1980s British sitcom "Yes Minister" and its sequel, "Yes, Prime Minister". He is the Minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs, and later the Prime Minister. He was portrayed by Paul Eddington in the original show; in the 2013 revival he was portrayed by David Haig.
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Philip Moon (actor) Philip Moon (born November 5, 1961) is an American actor of Asian descent who has appeared primarily in television. He is best known for playing Keemo Volien Abbott in the CBS soap opera "The Young and the Restless" from 1994 to 1996, Mr. Lee in the TV series "Deadwood" (2005), and the thug Woo in the 1998 Coen brothers film "The Big Lebowski". In 2007 he played the leading role in Allen Blumberg's drama film "Ghosts of the Heartland". In 2011 he appeared in the "Dead Ringer" episode of "".
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Matt Kisber Matthew Harris "Matt" Kisber (born January 31, 1960) is a businessman and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Tennessee who served ten two-year terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives and was Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development during the governorship of Phil Bredesen.
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Impeachment process against Richard Nixon An impeachment process against Richard Nixon was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution, , giving its Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether sufficient grounds existed to impeach Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States of high crimes and misdemeanors, primarily related to the Watergate scandal. This investigation was undertaken one year after the United States Senate established a select committee to investigate the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and the Nixon Administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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Quinn Perkins Quinn Perkins, formerly Lindsay Dwyer, is a fictional character portrayed by Katie Lowes, created by Shonda Rhimes for the political drama television series "Scandal". She works for Olivia Pope in the Washington, D.C.-based crisis management-firm, Pope & Associates, that specializes in political situations.
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Kenneth A. Jackson Kenneth A. "Kenny" Jackson is a businessman in Baltimore, Maryland, with past connections to the illegal drug trade in the city. He is one of the Baltimore underworld figures whose stories are dramatized in the HBO series "The Wire", but his actual influence upon the show is disputed. The connections among drug trafficking, legitimate businesses, and political donations depicted in "The Wire" reflect aspects of Jackson’s life.
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Jerry Rushing Jerry Elijah Rushing (born c. 1937) (died July 23 2017) was an American best known for his years as a bootlegger or "moonrunner" (moonshine runner, "running" being a form of smuggling).
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Joseph Lazarow Joseph Aaron Lazarow (December 17, 1923 – January 3, 2008) was an American politician from New Jersey, who served as the Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey from 1976 to 1982, during the period when casino gambling was introduced to the struggling Jersey Shore community.