Word: altmans
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...star of Robert Altman's The Player, Robbins learned how to keep things smartly abustle. And in the manner of Altman's TV series Tanner '88, he sets an easily acidulous tone; Robbins is having fun poking fun. Ultimately, as if to prove paranoia is not unique to right-wingers, he blames Bob and his advisers for every political atrocity of the past decade -- and a few new ones, including framing a rabid fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) who may have the goods on bad Bob. The crimes are listed not so much to push a leftish agenda as to clarify...
...indictment of an 85-year-old man with a reputation for rectitude and a distinguished five-decade career. New York State and federal authorities have charged Clark Clifford, the patrician lawyer who has counseled every Democratic U.S. President since Harry Truman, and his partner-protege, Robert Altman, with conspiracy to defraud by helping B.C.C.I. secretly buy and control two large U.S. banks. In a parallel move, the Federal Reserve announced that it has started a civil action against the pair. Clifford faces up to nine years and Altman up to 31 years in prison, as well as millions in fines...
Simultaneous probes by the office of New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, the Justice Department and the Federal Reserve indicate that Clifford, as chairman of First American, and Altman, as president, acted as knowing front men for B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, falsifying documents and lying to authorities. The two are also charged with using First American's 1987 purchase of National Bank of Georgia as a vehicle for transferring huge and unmerited profits to B.C.C.I., all under Abedi's direction...
...would they do it? The civil and criminal actions suggest one answer: $32 million in cash and stock awarded to Clifford and Altman in a sweetheart transaction engineered by Abedi and concealed by the two from the Fed and even their own board of directors. The prosecutors allege the deal was a bribe, as was part of the $17 million their law firm charged as legal counsel for B.C.C.I. and First American...
...scene that captured the news last week was of stately superlawyer Clark Clifford, that icon of Washington power brokering for five decades, clutching his fedora and lowering his well-worn face in a Manhattan courtroom. There he and his younger partner Robert Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful...