Louisiana Governor Indicted
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, the silver-tongued gambler who boasted of surviving six previous grand jury investigations, was indicted with six others today on charges of racketeering, wire fraud and mail fraud in a hospital development scheme.
The third-term Democrat, who last week gave 8-5 odds he would escape indictment, has maintained his innocence and has vowed he will not resign. Edwards, 57, has admitted he accepted $2 million as a partner in a development firm he later exempted from a ban on hospital construction.
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