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Gallinghouse moved against Lewis Johnson, a New Orleans builder, major contributor to Governor [[Edwin Edwards]], and a former highway department commissioner, convicted of [[income tax]] evasion.<ref name=crider/> In 1973, Gallinghouse prosecuted Orleans Parish District Attorney James Carothers "Jim" Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; 1921-1992) for bribery involving pinball machines, but Garrison was acquitted and is most remembered for his criticism of the [[Warren Commission]], formed to investigate the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=crider/>

Gallinghouse moved against Lewis Johnson, a New Orleans builder, major contributor to Governor [[Edwin Edwards]], and a former highway department commissioner, convicted of [[income tax]] evasion.<ref name=crider/> In 1973, Gallinghouse prosecuted Orleans Parish District Attorney James Carothers "Jim" Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; 1921-1992) for bribery involving pinball machines, but Garrison was acquitted and is most remembered for his criticism of the [[Warren Commission]], formed to investigate the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=crider/>

In 1977, in an investigation of vote fraud, Gallinghouse forced the resignation of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Richard Alvin Tonry (1935-2012) of Louisiana's 1st congressional district in the New Orleans [[suburb]]s. Twenty-one polling commissioners pleaded guilty to having cast fraudulent votes for Tonry in the 1976 [[general election]] against the Republican attorney [[Bob Livingston]]. Tonry served six months in the Federal Prison Camp in [[Montgomery|], Alabama, not for vote fraud, but for accepting individual campaign contributions in excess of the then $1,000 allowable limit.<ref name=crider/> Livingston then won the [[special election]] held in August 1977 to succeed Tonry but left Congress under a cloud in 1999.

In 1977, in an investigation of vote fraud, Gallinghouse forced the resignation of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Richard Alvin Tonry (1935-2012) of Louisiana's 1st congressional district in the New Orleans [[suburb]]s. Twenty-one polling commissioners pleaded guilty to having cast fraudulent votes for Tonry in the 1976 [[general election]] against the Republican attorney [[Bob Livingston]]. Tonry served six months in the Federal Prison Camp in [[Montgomery]], Alabama, not for vote fraud, but for accepting individual campaign contributions in excess of the then $1,000 allowable limit.<ref name=crider/> Livingston then won the [[special election]] held in August 1977 to succeed Tonry but left Congress under a cloud in 1999.

Gallinghouse also exposed in the middle 1970s what became known as the Great Grain Scandal, which netted seventy-one convictions on fraud charges. Four large grain companies pleaded no contest and paid the maximum fines permitted of $10,000.<ref name=crider/> Dishonest inspectors began asking for modest, undetected kickbacks from the shippers to get grain approved for entry, but as business boomed, some were seeking $5,000 in bribes per ship.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PTQQQECdT4QC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=Gerald+J.+Gallinghouse+of+New+Orleans&source=bl&ots=eSwuX3dRA9&sig=UYnrfvBwFfCdbsYXUcBRPP-zea4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tu_OUZHELoTo8gSBlYA4&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Gerald%20J.%20Gallinghouse%20of%20New%20Orleans&f=false|author=Heinz Dietrich Fischer, ed|title=National Reporting, 1941-1986, Vo. 2 (Labor Conflicts)|page=271|publisher=[[New York City]]: K. G. Saur|accessdate=March 8, 2022}}</ref> As a result of these cases, Congress established a new system of grain inspections. Gallinghouse's work in this case brought favorable comments from [[U.S. Senator]] [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]], the Democrat who had lost the 1968 election to Gallinghouse's patron, Richard Nixon.<ref name=crider/>

Gallinghouse also exposed in the middle 1970s what became known as the Great Grain Scandal, which netted seventy-one convictions on fraud charges. Four large grain companies pleaded no contest and paid the maximum fines permitted of $10,000.<ref name=crider/> Dishonest inspectors began asking for modest, undetected kickbacks from the shippers to get grain approved for entry, but as business boomed, some were seeking $5,000 in bribes per ship.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PTQQQECdT4QC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=Gerald+J.+Gallinghouse+of+New+Orleans&source=bl&ots=eSwuX3dRA9&sig=UYnrfvBwFfCdbsYXUcBRPP-zea4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tu_OUZHELoTo8gSBlYA4&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=Gerald%20J.%20Gallinghouse%20of%20New%20Orleans&f=false|author=Heinz Dietrich Fischer, ed|title=National Reporting, 1941-1986, Vo. 2 (Labor Conflicts)|page=271|publisher=[[New York City]]: K. G. Saur|accessdate=March 8, 2022}}</ref> As a result of these cases, Congress established a new system of grain inspections. Gallinghouse's work in this case brought favorable comments from [[U.S. Senator]] [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]], the Democrat who had lost the 1968 election to Gallinghouse's patron, Richard Nixon.<ref name=crider/>