Word: cased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIN BLUE LINE (PBS, May 24, 9 p.m. on most stations). Errol Morris' hypnotically compelling documentary about a Texas murder case helped win the release in March of Randall Adams after twelve years in prison. Now the "nonfiction feature" makes its TV debut on American Playhouse, the series that originally commissioned...
There is certainly much to question in Saranow's handling of tax cases that the IRS brought against two rivals of Guess. In 1985 Saranow, acting on a tip from Guess, launched a criminal probe of Jeff Hamilton, Inc., a Los Angeles- based company that once made clothes under a license from Guess. A year later Saranow, again relying on information supplied by Guess, got IRS officials in New York City to begin a criminal case against Jordache. At the time, Jordache's founders, the Nakash brothers, were embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Marciano brothers, who founded Guess...
...late 1986, after the IRS dropped a tax case against Guess that had been initiated by Jordache, top agency officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...
Congressional investigators believe that the IRS in its investigation of Saranow not only ignored key witnesses but also kept him abreast of the case as it developed. John Rankin Jr., the retired IRS assistant commissioner for inspection who oversaw the Saranow investigation, denies a whitewash. "I think Ron made some bad judgments, but I don't think he committed a crime," he says...
...officials involved in harassing the whistle-blowers was John McManus, who is also the subject of investigation by the subcommittee. McManus, a former deputy assistant commissioner of the IRS, was permitted to retire quietly from the agency in 1987 after a tax case against him was initiated. In April 1988, shortly after Barnard's subcommittee stumbled across his case, the IRS sent McManus a "notice of deficiency" seeking nearly $100,000 in back taxes and penalties...