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- R._Budd_Dwyer abstract "Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served from 1971 to 1981 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. He served as the 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from January 20, 1981 to January 22, 1987. On that day, Dwyer called a news conference in the Pennsylvania state capital of Harrisburg where he killed himself in front of the gathered reporters with a .357 caliber revolver. Dwyer's suicide was broadcast later that day to a wide television audience across the state of Pennsylvania.In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania discovered its state workers had overpaid federal taxes due to errors in state withholding. Many accounting firms competed for a multimillion-dollar contract to determine compensation to each employee. In 1986, Dwyer was convicted of receiving a bribe from the California firm that ultimately won the contract. He was scheduled to be sentenced on those charges on January 23, 1987, the day after his suicide.Throughout Dwyer's trial and after his conviction, he maintained that he was innocent of the charges levied against him, and that he had been framed. Decades later, it was misreported that the prosecution's primary witness, William T. Smith, whose testimony was largely used to obtain Dwyer's conviction, admitted in a documentary about Dwyer that he had lied under oath about Dwyer taking a bribe in order to receive a reduced sentence. In fact, Smith acknowledges, as he did at Dwyer's trial, that he had lied in his own earlier trial when he testified that he had not offered Dwyer a bribe. He admitted that he testified against Dwyer in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence and to spare his wife from being prosecuted for her role in the conspiracy, and expressed his regret for that decision and the role it played in Dwyer's death.".
- R._Budd_Dwyer almaMater Allegheny_College.
- R._Budd_Dwyer birthDate "1939-11-21".
- R._Budd_Dwyer birthPlace St._Charles,_Missouri.
- R._Budd_Dwyer deathDate "1987-01-22".
- R._Budd_Dwyer deathPlace Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania.
- R._Budd_Dwyer office "Treasurer of Pennsylvania".
- R._Budd_Dwyer orderInOffice "30th".
- R._Budd_Dwyer party Republican_Party_(United_States).
- R._Budd_Dwyer predecessor James_E._Willard.
- R._Budd_Dwyer predecessor Robert_E._Casey.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Crawford_County,_Pennsylvania.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Erie_County,_Pennsylvania.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Mercer_County,_Pennsylvania.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Pennsylvania.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Pennsylvania_House_of_Representatives,_District_6.
- R._Budd_Dwyer region Pennsylvania_Senate,_District_50.
- R._Budd_Dwyer successor G._Davis_Greene,_Jr..
- R._Budd_Dwyer successor H._Harrison_Haskell.
- R._Budd_Dwyer successor Roy_Wilt.
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