Mr. Margiotta stepped down as party chairman in 1983 before serving a two-year Federal prison sentence for mail fraud and perjury in an unrelated case involving insurance fraud.
Mr. LaRouche first ran for president in 1976 and has tried every election since, including a 1992 campaign from prison while serving 5 years of a 15-year sentence for mail fraud and defaulting on more than $30 million in loans from campaign supporters.
At the same trial, his associates received lesser sentences for mail fraud and conspiracy.
Connie Farris, 73, is serving a 12-year sentence for mail fraud at the Federal Correctional Institution camp in Dublin, California.
The controversy turned into a criminal prosecution, Piggie sentenced to federal prison for mail fraud, and Rush suspended by the NCAA for much of his sophomore season at UCLA, where he averaged 11.6 points.
Mr. Margiotta served from 1967 until 1983, when he was forced to resign after being sentenced to two years in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy in a municipal insurance kickback scheme.
Or he would have been, had he not been arrested by FBI agent Melvin Purvis and sentenced to seven years in the slammer for mail fraud.
Kaeppeler's father, Jeff Kaeppeler, told the AP he served 18 months in federal prison for mail fraud, a sentence his daughter said started as she was graduating high school and entering college.
Former Attorney General Dan Morales was sentenced to four years in a federal prison for mail fraud and tax evasion in a case involving Texas' $17 billion settlement with the tobacco industry in 1998.
In a separate criminal prosecution for mail fraud, House recently was sentenced to eight years in the big house.
But if a conviction for mail fraud and a six-month sentence did not deter Maryland's top-grossing lobbyist, Bruce C. Bereano, two years ago, neither did Mr. Bereano's activities totally discourage Mr. Kelberman.
