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City Councillor William H. Walsh has spent six weeks in the twelfth floor of the federal courtroom standing trial on 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy. Walsh allegedly masterminded a scheme to defraud Dime Savings Bank of New York of approximately $8 million...
This realization came too late to Nussbaum, who brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered...
...lives they destroyed. If proved guilty, they will have ruined their own. But there is a third life that wrenches the heart: that of their six-year-old son Paul. The boy, who is being cared for by relatives, may never again see either of his parents outside a courtroom or a federal prison...
...Courtroom Roundup...
Localist passions run deep when the courtroom talk turns to rent control...