area recover from the effects of the 1972 Agnes Flood.

A trial on bribery charges that Flood had accepted more than $50,000 in payoffs ended with a hung jury. A retrial was repeatedly delayed because of treatment for several ailments; federal prosecutors suggested that the treatments were being postponed as a stalling measure. In 1980, he resigned from Congress before pleading guilty to a single count of payoffs, for which he was sentenced to one year of probation.

Early life and career

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