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...submit evidence on their own behalf. Their sole representatives are resident deans, who are plagued by severe conflicts of interest, as deans are often asked to function as both advocate and prosecutor in disciplinary inquiries. Students have no alternative choice of representation, as they are prohibited from hiring an attorney for an Ad Board hearing. It is already difficult enough for a defendant to get a fair shake from the Ad Board—a student should be able to go into a hearing with the best possible representation. Compounding these issues are problems of intra-Board dynamic: Resident deans...
...Mahoney attorney Gary Isaacs told TIME on Thursday morning that there was a settlement paid to Allen, but that the funds came from Mahoney's business. "I have no reason to believe for there to be an inkling of any impropriety" as far as campaign or taxpayer money being used, Isaacs said. The attorney did not elaborate on what the settlement payment was for. "Both sides are bound by confidentiality," he said. "There's an agreement between the parties that limit what I can say with regards to the resolution...
...Even before the current scandal, Mahoney was facing a tough re-election battle with Republican Tom Rooney, an attorney and well-funded opponent whose family owns the Pittsburgh Steelers. A survey of 400 likely voters conducted by Rooney's campaign in early September gave Mahoney a 48-41 lead, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 points. In a district where Republican registrants still lead Democrats by 41% to 37%, Mahoney has done his best to sell himself as a moderate Democrat, picking up an endorsement from the National Rifle Association. But Republicans had already targeted Mahoney...
...tempting target for GOP strategists. In Chicago in 1992, Obama headed the Project Vote campaign - an organization affiliated with ACORN - which registered 150,000 voters on the city's the south side and helped elect Carol Moseley Braun, the country's first female African-American Senator. As an attorney, Obama worked on the team of lawyers that represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit in which it accused the state of Illinois of violating federal polling laws, and spoke at two leadership training sessions for ACORN employees a few years later. In February, the Obama campaign paid $800,000 to Citizen...
Susan A. Waxenberg ’78, a New York attorney, said that the son of her classmate Anna A. Manatis ’78 is now her godson...