Word: brill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carol Brill, a spokesman for the National Association of Social Workers, said that "welfare recipients are being asked to eat the scraps on the table of plenty in Massachusetts." Brill added that inflation and foodstamp reductions will negate any increase in welfare spending...
...Although the Iran-contra hearings are not directly concerned with Eatsco's operations, committee investigators have privately interviewed Shirley Brill, a former CIA administrator and companion of Clines'. Brill informed the investigators last week that Clines told her that Wilson, Secord, Shackley and Erich von Marbod, a former Defense Department official, were partners with him in Eatsco. Von Marbod, who retired from the Pentagon in 1981 at the same time that the Eatsco inquiry began, has not been implicated in the Iran-contra scandal...
...stiffer laws favored by the commission might infringe upon a citizen's legitimate right to privacy in banking matters. Some critics in Congress charge that the commission's definition of laundering is too broad and could cast suspicion over large cash-banking transactions of all kinds. Arthur Brill, a commission staffer, dismisses those fears. He claims, "You have nothing to be concerned about if you're not taking shopping bags full of money to the counter...
...commission will have scored a victory, Brill says, if bank presidents tell their people, "We're not going to take any more of the Mob's money." That kind of attitude by the entire financial community could have a powerful effect. Says Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City and the commission's chairman: "Without the ability to freely utilize its ill-gotten gains, the underworld will have been dealt a crippling blow. Money laundering is the lifeblood of organized crime...
...book is written in the novel-like, no-attribution form that Woodward and Bernstein did much to popularize--and for which they took much flak--in The Final Days, their account of the end of the Nixon Administration. As American Lawyer editor Steven Brill has written, the style irritates formalist journalists who cringe if no "he recalled" or "she added" appears after an incident...