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...House Ways and Means Committee were concerned that the President's tax-reform bill would provoke an exodus of staffers into the lobbying ranks. Their fears were not unfounded: the committee's chief counsel, John Salmon, quit to work as a lobbyist for the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine; James Healey, former aide to Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, quit to join Black, Manafort...
...mission: "To make the justice system a reality for the criminal." Nearly three years into his four-year appointment by President Reagan, he has done just that by snaring high-living mobsters, low-life drug dealers, quiet white-collar criminals and loud banner headlines. Like Thomas Dewey and Henry Stimson, earlier New York prosecutors who parlayed their convictions into prominent national careers, Giuliani has become a high-profile, white-hatted gangbuster in an age when the public yearns for someone to prove that crime doesn...
Veritones Vice President Inger C. Dewey '89 stresses the importance of getting people with optimism, confidence, and performing ability, as well as musical talent. "We're a wholly new group; we need people who will break that barrier of nervousness and just go out there and give it their...
...crime, giving detailed press conferences and turning up on national television to trumpet his indictments. Critics have accused him of trying and convicting defendants before they have even been arraigned. Some detractors think that Giuliani is preparing a political career in the tradition of onetime New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who rose to fame in New York in the 1930s by winning convictions against such famous criminals as Louis Lepke and Lucky Luciano. Giuliani insists that his goal is simply to defeat the mob. Indeed, only the defendants' attorneys have suggested that the indictments are not legitimate. But the prosecutor...
...Dewey added that plans are also tentative as to whether the Veritones will be Class of '89 group, a freshman group, or will vanish after this year...