Steinbrenner was fined $15,000, suspended from baseball for 15 months by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, and later received a presidential pardon from Ronald Reagan.
The FBI has released 400 pages relating to its investigation of Steinbrenner. You can download PDF files all of the documents here. A description from the FBI:
This release contains three files: 1) the FBI's investigation (Headquarters File 56-4737) into illegal campaign contributions made by Steinbrenner and his company, the American Shipbuilding Company, to the Nixon presidential campaign; 2) a laboratory analysis for the Federal Highway Administration of several anonymous letters concerning possible fraud in the federal aid highway program in Ohio (Headquarters File 95-189353); and 3) material related to Steinbrenner's appeal for a pardon from his conviction for illegal campaign financing and obstruction of justice (Baltimore Division File 73-841).
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Good to know the FBI is tracking the dark side, too.
From one memo, recapping the interviews of the eight employees:
The employees "admitted that they made contributions as indicated, admitted that they received company bonuses at about the time they made the contributions, in the approximate amount of the contributions, but claimed they would have made the political contribution even if they had not received the bonuses."
"The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar; the other's convicted." — Billy Martin, on Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner
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