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Every receptionist is familiar with the situation: an importunate visitor without an appointment insists on seeing the boss to air real or imagined grievances. Such was the case with the confused, middle-age woman who pestered the receptionist last week at the Manhattan head quarters of the Deak-Perera foreign exchange company before being ushered out of the office. It might have been just another wrinkle of life in the big city--except the woman soon returned with a gun. Before she was tackled and disarmed by a police officer, Lois E. Lang, 44, had shot to death Receptionist Frances...
...Deak representatives denied all the charges. R. Leslie Deak, then executive vice president of the firm and the founder's son, blamed the commission report for some of the company's financial problems. In December 1984, Deak & Co. and two of its offshoots filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Two other subsidiaries, Deak-Perera U.S. and a foreign commerce bank, Deak National Bank, were not included in the filings. Said the younger Deak: "The damage we have suffered from maliciousness in that report to a very great extent caused the downfall of a very fine firm...
Police say that Lang was a homeless drifter with a history of psychiatric problems. She had previously lived in the state of Washington, where she was awarded a bachelor's degree in physical education from Washington State University in 1963 and later taught fencing and tennis. Lang had visited Deak-Perera offices before, claiming that she was an owner of the company and that Deak owed her money. The firm denies that either statement is true. The woman had apparently exhibited bizarre behavior previously. Gretchen Collins, former food-service manager at the student union of the University of Washington...
State Sen. George Bachrach portrays himself as an iconoclast and not "a back-slapping member of the club." His record of activism includes demonstrations against the Vietnam War, civil rights advocacy, anti-nuclear rallies, and a 1984 arrest while protesting in the offices of Deak-Perera, a dealer in South African gold Krugerrands...
...members added that Deak-Perera had influenced the District Attorney's decision to drop the charges in order to steer attention away from the issue. But both the company spokesman, who asked not to be identified, and the District Attorney's John W. Gibbons, said the company had no hand in making the choice not to prosecute...