Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in...
Now Fortas is a target again. This week's LIFE says that while on the Supreme Court Fortas became involved with Louis Wolfson, a corporate adventurer who is serving a one-year sentence for selling unregistered stock. Three months after taking his oath, says LIFE, Fortas received $20,000...
Without Fortas' knowledge, reports LIFE, Wolfson used the Justice's name in an attempt to stay out of prison. LIFE quotes a Government witness as saying that Fortas, while a member of the high court, had discussed the case against Wolfson during a visit to Wolfson's...
In a letter denying a request by LIFE editors for a meeting to discuss the information uncovered by the magazine, Fortas wrote: "Since there has been no impropriety, or anything approaching it, in my conduct, no purpose would be served by any such meeting." Fortas acknowledged visiting the Wolfson farm...
Fortas' letter did not mention the $20,000. Nor did Fortas-who is a rich man, a legal scholar, a violin virtuoso and a collector of art and antiques-really address himself to the key question posed by LIFE: Why would a man of his legal brilliance and high...