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...protestors’ two-day trial began on Feb. 10. Tanaka, fearing a sentence of up to 30 days in jail, e-mailed his friends and asked them to come to the courtroom on Wednesday to show their support. Over half a dozen students answered Tanaka’s request...
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, co-founder of Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group with Tanaka, said that he went to the courtroom on Wednesday to show his “solidarity as a friend...
...fashioned values he learned as a student. "Humility, service and lifting the human spirit work as well in the boardroom as they do in the classroom," he said. That same week his flamboyant predecessor at Tyco, a sprawling $37 billion conglomerate, was sitting through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy admitted that she had been having an affair with him, even as she agreed...
Faneuil, 28, was preparing to take the stand on day two of the trial and was expected to tell this version of the events to the jury, when Bacanovic's lawyer, Richard Strassberg, stunned the courtroom by calling for a mistrial. Strassberg said that at 10:15 the previous night the prosecution had belatedly faxed him a copy of an interview the FBI had conducted with Faneuil's former lawyer, Jeremiah Gutman, 80, which hinted at a different version of events. Gutman said he couldn't remember whom Faneuil had identified--Bacanovic or Waksal--as the one who had instructed...
...high-profile trial to begin, Martha Stewart looked almost upbeat last week as she finally had her first days in court. Sporting clean-line pantsuits and clutching a Hermes Birkin handbag (starting price: $6,000), she looked--for once--perfectly out of place in an otherwise musty courtroom in downtown Manhattan. And when the judge unexpectedly delayed for a week testimony from Douglas Faneuil, a key government witness, Stewart left the courthouse with a smile on her face...