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The Outcast: Cacking a Big Case Won One Detective Lots of Grief. Contmgd From Page One NJelectrical.contractofor tsx fraud eagtesthecriminalinvestgatton.sec peaded gulty in Septenber.t973. ton. Haleah Race Couse nc,&Florlda 7As the moxths went by he handledmur track formerly connectedwith Mr.Mo ders ard.arsons tor the major.crimesynit for tax fraudpieeded gultyinDecembes 1973, tion probe never broke nto tho open with in Monmouth ParkJockey Club Garden [dictments.It was then that his former col State Recetrack and Atlantie' City Race. eaguessald.tney had beenordered not to tracktor.tax fraud all awaltngtrial iseuss it with him.n Fedruary 193 he w Several gtber construction.contractors Habruptly reassigned to menial turnpixe and an advertisingfimwhtehare doing millons ot collars of,work forsuch employ called from work to tell MrsChallen ers astheNew Jerstysports.complexand der.says.. theNewJersey.lottery. H An IndinNot a Chie ot himDetective Chailender requested Detective Cnallender Corsdercd the in meeting withMr.Kenytho poltce.supein dictments avindication cf himself,.but he gotno actlonon his. grevancesGov.Can rerred and what was happeningtothe con s attorney general, GeorgeKugler, con zuptlon investigaton.Accordng to Mrs tendedboth that the detectivebvtolated ChaenderMtKellyneyer.responded regulations by. going outstde the state polic So tc detective deetded totakomatters ntahis own hands. Witn Lewis.Kadenthe nwarranted and unproductiveMr.Kuzter awyer.for.a:statetroopersfraternal orga said that the state had been investigating izationhe went to visit thenUsAttomey th capaign.contbutions all alongin con Herbert'Sternnow tederal udge,who mctfon with thoInternal Revenue Service. wax pincipallyxesponsibe for lockng ups Detective Challenderhesad, was an In- daxdMr.SherwinIater was convieted.Te many.ot tho former Denocratic oncehord diannotchier,andtherefore had been commisson ot inytstigation.clearedMr.Ku. .... 3ware of thorealinvestigatlonEitber gierin thematter..detexmining.that Mr.... Sternhad a.bad memory whenho testfied. documents Detective Challender hadphoto Detective Challender had high hopes that copled and preserved from bis investfgation fthe pubite believes Detective'Challenderor Ms lot.would improve in January of ths A grand jury was put on tho tran The com fngs and gongs ofdig thots to.testify sey State PoliceMr.Kugler concluded took ffce and.xeplaced Mr.Kugler with a aroused the curiosity ot tbo presg.A story Mr.Stern,the US.attoneyreputd pub- pew attomey general,Wnliam Hyland.Gov. was leakcd thata disgrmtled state.troopex ely that th peoplecowd elleveDetectiveByme's new special conselwsnone other. had touched oft the tederal tnvestigation. Challende.Hesatd there hadn't been any thanMr.KsdenDetecttve Chalender's lor Mrs.Cnanender saysher. husbandsull active state tnvestigatfontnconnectton witnmer lawyer. Gov.Byme ssigned Mr.Hy doesnt know who leaked the storybut De hIRsAfterMr.Grosss tralMr.Stesand to.invesugate the Challender matter tective Challender's.name was in beadiines successot asU.s.attorneyJonathan Goidand.other complaintsthat the state troop before long.He was called on the carpet and Ithreatened.with disciphnary.action.. nyn. Then Canie the Indictraents: ... manJame Cnallender,came to our.officeplaintsMr.Kellyresigned ant tooka fobas Meanwhile,Andtctment$ started fo cas- and advised us tbst ke had not been allowed head otsecurity tor A&pHe wont com- cade from thdtederal grand fury.Tne ac tocompltte bis Investigation.into aleged msnt now.on the Challender atter. pend wrongdoing ing Mr.Hyland's reportwhichhs beep de cused:. State Treasyrer.McCraneaWestPolnt Tne argument deganto.sound like areayed.sevtral tmes.A spokesman.for-Mr graduateand ArmyReservemajor vival ot a Stem-Kugler feudot ini TnenHyiand told the Jounal the report could be fax-traud conspiracycasepending. Mr. Stern tota the.stato dommisston ot n Issuedn aweek or'two.MrKaden.says h vestgattonthat r. Kugle nad known has stayed.outof the Challender nquiry be Nelson Gross formtrstateassembly man andU.s.Senatecandidate who became adout political bbes accepted by formercause of the potenttal conntct of interest. New Jersey Seeretary ot State Paul Sherwin Meantime,New Jerseys formerace de. powtrtul Repablicanligure when he $wung'thoNewJersey delegation.to.give ut dint att tflMr. Sten forced hsteetive stays on hubcappatrol Richard Nixon the tirst-ballot nomination a the16s G0p Natioal Convention and who waslaterappolnted byMrNixon tohead Megovennenis IntematlonalNarcoties ontrolProgramfor.taxfraud.conspiracy ndbstructtonotjusticeconvictedn March or five.coumts, and is appealmg. BeanteCassMerNoanIn KrantonPa.engtnetring lirmwhosese Jor partner was a close riend ot Gov,Cah. pon..p..t tinessex peadedgutltytnJume