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	Sarrecchia2
		Angleton had filed for divorce just two months before her death in April of 1997, and she was not going to go empty-handed. According to her attorney, Mrs.
		Angleton wanted fifty percent of the estate. Additionally, her lawyer was pressing her to report the family income to the IRS -- something that would cause problems for her mobster husband.
		Angleton was not a passive Carmella Soprano in her relationship. According to Mr.
	www.kennesaw.edu /themagazine/Sarrecchia2.htm (881 words)

	Roger Angleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger's comical nature -- he dressed up as a rabbit at a Halloween party -- seems at odds with his crimes and with his failures relative to his younger brother Robert Nicholas Angleton.
		Roger Angleton was 55 years old at the time of the murder.
		Roger Angleton committed suicide in a Houston prison cell on February 7, 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Angleton (321 words)

	Edward Jay Epstein's Home Page
		Although the Fluency Committee had no direct evidence that Sir Roger ever was in contact with Soviet intelligence, De Mowbray went personally to the seat of the British government at 10 Downing Street, identified himself, and asked to see the Prime Minister.
		Angleton told him that his interest was not the KGB's staffing, or "order of battle", as it is called; but the "logic of Soviet penetration".
		Angleton took it under consideration, although it had no chance of coming to fruition, to further drew out his ideas about the KGB.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /archived/looking2.htm (1604 words)

	Law.com
		Roger Angleton was indicted by a grand jury, but he committed suicide in 1998 before his trial, leaving a controversial note saying he committed the crime by himself.
		Angleton urges in his motion that the sham prosecution exception applies to his case because of the extensive involvement of the Houston Police Department and other state officials in the federal prosecution.
		Angleton contends that the federal government is not pursuing an independent sovereign interest but instead is acting as a surrogate for the state by bringing a second prosecution.
	www.law.com /jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1024079063228 (1758 words)

	Angleton to be prosecuted despite brother's suicide note
		Roger Angleton, who killed himself Saturday in the Harris County Jail, said in several notes that he had acted alone in the death of his sister-in-law and had manufactured evidence to incriminate his brother.
		Roger Angleton, 55, was found dead in his cell in the county jail about 6:15 a.m.
		Robert Angleton told homicide investigators shortly after the discovery of his wife's body that he thought his brother might be involved in the slaying.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/02/10/angleton.2-0.html (1136 words)

	Defense begins its case in murder-for-hire trial
		The state contends Bob and Roger Angleton are heard plotting the April 16, 1997, slaying of Bob's wife, Doris McGown Angleton.
		Angleton, 46, was killed two months after she filed for divorce and obtained half of $3 million the couple had in safe deposit boxes.
		Roger Angleton killed himself in jail last February and left behind notes claiming he killed his sister-in-law without his brother's knowledge.
	texnews.com /1998/texas/trial0806.html (323 words)

	Angleton suicide letter says brother is innocent
		Roger Angleton was charged with capital murder, allegedly for shooting Doris Angleton, 46, in her River Oaks home on April 16, 1997.
		Roger Angleton, 55, was found dead in his cell in the Harris County Jail about 6:15 a.m.
		Roger Angleton has been portrayed as a violent man with a history of mental illness, but Bennett said that was not true.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/02/09/note.html (871 words)

	Prosecutor tells how brothers plotted murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In opening statements at Angleton's capital murder trial, prosecutor Lyn McClellan said millions in cash and assets were at stake when Doris McGown Angleton filed for divorce on Feb. 7, 1997, two months before she was killed on April 16.
		But Angleton attorney Michael Ramsey countered that his client was the victim of his brother, Roger Angleton, and that he had no part in a plot.
		Roger Angleton killed himself in jail in February and left notes claiming he killed his sister-in-law and framed his brother to extort money from him.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/98/07/29/angleton_2-0.html (698 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller-Times / Jury begins deliberating in murder-for-hire case
		As Angleton's twin 14-year-old daughters watched in anguish, prosecutors portrayed their father as a greedy hood who plotted to kill his wife when she filed for divorce and went after the millions of dollars he had made as the city's top bookie.
		Angleton, a former police informant, is accused of offering his brother about $1 million to kill Doris McGown Angleton on April 16, 1997, at the couple's River Oaks area home.
		Angleton, 46, was shot multiple times after returning home from her daughters' softball game to retrieve a bat her husband had asked for.
	www.caller2.com /texas98/texas20458.html (571 words)

	Bookie's Wife: Brothers In Crime?, Bob Angleton Faces Trial In Wife's Murder - CBS News
		According to Angleton, his older brother, Roger, was the obvious suspect in Doris’ murder.
		Roger continued to threaten him, and in a letter sent to Bob just six weeks before the murder, Bob says that Roger threatened to hurt his family.
		Ali and Niki Angleton went to live with family friends while their father was facing the death penalty in a city that sends more people to Death Row than any other, in a state that at that time executed more people than any other.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/01/10/48hours/main323937.shtml (1301 words)

	Bookie, Reporter, Justice Department, Leggett - Tony Sarrecchia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Angleton had filed for divorce just two months before her death in April of 1997, and she was not going to go empty-handed.
		Angleton was not a passive Carmella Soprano in her relationship.
		Angleton knew about his illegal activities since before they were married in 1981.
	www.creativetony.com /tony/leggett.htm (982 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller-Times / Jury acquits Houston bookmaker of role in slaying of his wife in '97
		Angleton was accused of offering his brother about $1 million to kill his wife on April 16, 1997, at the couple's home near River Oaks, Houston's toniest neighborhood.
		Angleton almost immediately implicated his brother, saying Roger Angleton had sent him a note just weeks before the slaying demanding $200,000 and threatening violence if he did not get the money.
		But when Roger Angleton finally was arrested, police found a tape recording on which they said Bob and Roger Angleton conspired to commit the crime.
	www.caller2.com /texas98/texas20467.html (604 words)

	CNN.com - Texas writer freed after 5 months in jail - January 4, 2002
		Roger Angleton committed suicide in the Harris County jail before he could go to trial, leaving behind a note exonerating his brother -- a confession authorities viewed with suspicion.
		After Robert Angleton was acquitted of murder charges in state court, a federal grand jury was convened to investigate.
		She said federal prosecutors had already obtained her interview with Roger Angleton and that most of the other people she interviewed had already appeared before the grand jury or been questioned by law enforcement.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/04/jailed.writer (669 words)

	Observer \| Writer goes to jail rather than give up murder file (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The legal contest is brutally straightforward: Leggett holds that her exclusive jail interviews with Roger Angleton - who is suspected of killing his sister-in-law - and a host of supplementary interviews around the case given in confidence fall within her privilege as a journalist under the first amendment of the US Constitution.
		Her husband, Robert Angleton - a bookkeeper who took bets from the rich and powerful - was arrested in Las Vegas, carrying $64,000 in cash, and charged along with his brother Roger.
		The murder and its murky undercurrents caused a sensation, and a local television show invited Roger Angleton's lawyer to take part in a discussion along with an English lecturer at the University of Houston, Vanessa Leggett, in her capacity as an expert in investigating criminal cases and teaching crime literature.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4253052-102275,00.html (652 words)

	American Journalism Review
		On January 25 of this year, Robert Angleton was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and murder for hire, as well as a firearms violation.
		Angleton's business as a millionaire bookmaker was not widely known outside the tightly knit group of people who placed bets with him, fellow bookies and the few police investigators to whom he supplied information.
		While Angleton's indictment in late January eliminated the possibility that Leggett would be hauled before another grand jury, the prosecution could still summon her to the trial.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=2461 (5105 words)

	David B. Kopel & Paul H. Blackman on Vanessa Leggett on National Review Online
		His brother, Roger Angleton, was believed to be the triggerman.
		Roger eventually committed suicide, leaving behind a note saying that he had killed Doris, and had been trying to frame Robert.
		After Angleton was acquitted, the FBI launched an investigation of Angleton, in which the prosecutor's wife participated.
	www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel012202.shtml (1301 words)

	Vanessa Leggett to Receive 2002 PEN/Newman's Own Award
		Angleton's millionaire husband, Robert, was accused of paying his brother, Roger, to kill his wife.
		But after Robert Angleton was acquitted in state court, a federal investigation into his activities was launched, and a federal grand jury subpoenaed all of Leggett's tape-recorded conversations with anyone she had interviewed about the Angleton case.
		Because she had not promised confidentiality to Roger Angleton and because his suicide precluded prosecutors from questioning him directly, Leggett complied with the subpoena and handed over her interviews to the grand jury.
	www.freeexpression.org /newswire/0411_2002.htm (1323 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: news
		Leggett, 33, was found in contempt of court by a federal judge in Houston on July 20 and ordered jailed without bond for refusing to turn over her records of interviews with Roger Angleton.
		Angleton was charged in the 1997 shooting death of his sister-in-law, 46-year-old Doris Angleton, the wife of his brother, millionaire former bookie Robert Angleton.
		Mike Ramsey, one of Robert Angleton's attorneys, said he was puzzled at the interest in Leggett's records.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=4730 (807 words)

	James Jesus Angleton - The Education Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Angleton was not right, and his decimation of the agency was a travesty of justice unparalleled in US diplomatic history......
		Roger, if you have not, I recommend you read Trento's "The Secret History of the CIA." In it, Trento argues that the Soviets were indeed manipulating Angleton (not necessarily in the manner you suggest) and the mastermind behind the KGB manipulation of Angleton was--Kim Philby!.
		Angleton answered, with a thin smile, suggesting a deliberate understatement, "Truth is always complicated when its comes to defectors".
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=3375 (5922 words)

	TPA Ask the Attorney
		Robert Angleton, a wealthy former bookie, was accused of having hired his brother to kill his wife.
		One of them was Roger Angleton, who confessed to Leggett that he killed Doris Angleton but that his brother Robert had nothing to do with the murder.
		A federal judge, enforcing the grand jury’s subpoena, has jailed her for the term of the grand jury (which could be in session for as long as 18 months) until she complies with the subpoena.
	www.texaspress.com /AskAttorney/attorney0901.htm (1110 words)

	The Militant - August 20, 2001 -- Writer is jailed for contempt in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leggett had been working on a book about the April 16, 1997, murder of Doris Angleton, 36, who was shot to death in her home in Houston's exclusive River Oaks neighborhood.
		Angleton was the wife of millionaire Robert Angleton, an ex-bookie and cop informant.
		In preparing for the 1998 trial, the local Houston prosecutor obtained a subpoena for the notes and tapes of an interview Leggett had conducted with Roger Angleton while in jail awaiting trial.
	www.themilitant.com /2001/6532/653263.html (535 words)

	Summer Mystery: Why Jail Vanessa Leggett?
		Her husband, Robert Angleton, described by local media as a millionaire "bookie to the rich and famous," and his brother, Roger, a somewhat offbeat and unstable character, were subsequently charged with capital murder.
		Shortly thereafter, Roger committed suicide in jail, confessing in notes to the murder and indicating that he had framed his brother in a bizarre extortion effort (and not the first one either, Robert told the police).
		Whatever Roger Angleton told Vanessa Leggett has never been made public, but her notes and tapes were subpoenaed and turned over in 1998 to local prosecutors preparing to try Robert.
	www.cfif.org /htdocs/freedomline/current/america/free_line_summer.htm (5823 words)

	The Facts
		ANGLETON — Despite parents’ requests for another pre-kindergarten school in Angleton, council members denied a request to rezone residential property as commercial to allow construction of a day care.
		Cost also was a factor for the investors because the price of commercial property in Angleton is high, she said.
		Angleton resident Mindy Price told the audience she and her husband want a local educational day-care center because they don’t like seeing their dollars go to another city.
	thefacts.com /print.lasso?ewcd=ad4c137f9963b506 (673 words)

	WARNING TO ALL INDYMEDIA FREELANCE WRITERS : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Doris Angleton was shot a dozen times in the head and chest April 16, 1997, by an intruder in her home.
		Robert Angleton was acquitted in 1998 of a capital murder charge.
		Prosecutors alleged that he hired his brother, Roger, to kill his wife so that he would not have to pay her in a divorce settlement.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=113336 (1028 words)

	Click2Houston.com - Local News - Court Rules In Accused River Oaks Killer's Case
		Angleton was arrested Jan. 25 at his River Oaks home after a three-count federal indictment accused him of conspiracy to commit murder for hire, murder for hire and a firearms charge.
		His wife, Doris Angleton, was shot to death in April 1997 at her home in the wealthy Houston neighborhood of River Oaks.
		Robert Angleton was acquitted in 1998 and shortly after that FBI agents began investigating him.
	www.click2houston.com /news/1836954/detail.html (451 words)

	USATODAY.com - Reporter's jailing by feds draws criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The jailing of a Texas reporter who refused to give her research to U.S. prosecutors has raised concerns that Attorney General John Ashcroft is reversing a policy that gives journalists wide latitude in protecting confidential sources and unpublished information.
		Angleton was the wife of Robert Angleton, a millionaire ex-bookie who was acquitted in 1998 of hiring his brother to commit the murder.
		Robert Angleton's brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide in jail in February 1998, leaving a confession that said he had acted alone.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/july01/2001-07-30-reporter.htm (670 words)

	The Webfairy -- [CIA-DRUGS] Robert Angleton's bond set at $1 million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Angleton, 53, was arrested at his home in River Oaks on Friday after a
		Angleton and his brother, Roger, were charged with capital murder in
		Doris Angleton's body was found in the couple's home on April 16, 1997.
	thewebfairy.com /911/cia-drugs/Msg00205.html (512 words)

	freedomforum.org: Federal appeals court opens jailed writer's hearing to public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		State prosecutors alleged that Robert Angleton hired his brother to kill his wife to prevent her from getting millions of dollars in a divorce settlement.
		Roger Angleton committed suicide in the Harris County Jail in February 1998, before his trial.
		Roger Angleton wrote that he planned the murder and framed his brother to extort money from him.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=14619 (848 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Who Is a Writer? It's Not A Federal Case
		She was discussing the slaying on a radio talk show when Roger Angleton, one of two brothers accused in the murder, called in.
		Prosecutors alleged that Robert Angleton, who was going through a divorce, had hired his brother Roger to kill Doris Angleton so he wouldn't have to pay her millions in a divorce settlement.
		When Leggett received a subpoena after Roger's suicide, she cooperated because her first interview was on the record.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A60302-2001Aug25?language=printer (1577 words)

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