Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hastings' problems stem from his longtime friendship with William Borders, a prominent Washington attorney, who was convicted in a separate trial in 1982. After learning from an informant that Borders claimed to be a conduit for bribes to Hastings, the FBI commissioned a retired agent to pose as one of two brothers convicted of racketeering in the judge's courtroom. The impersonator struck a deal with Borders. In exchange for $150,000, Borders would get Hastings to reduce the brothers' punishment. Two meetings and a cryptic wiretapped phone conversation ensued between Hastings and Borders, followed by an order from...
...Henry James at first viewed the younger Edith Wharton with some alarm. He might have invented her, except that she was a Jamesian heroine even richer and brighter than his imagination had dared. And her novels made more money than his. The record of their growing friendship is only one of many happy adventures in this brimming, brilliant collection...
...attorney general's post with a Democrat, and Dukakis had no clear shot at the office. So he switched, and took aim at Cohen's slot, the lieutenant governorship. Dukakis felt or feigned surprise that Cohen would take this departure from the game plan as enough to end their friendship. It was just a matter of who could do the job better. Nothing personal...
...needed. Even legitimate dealings with state agencies were suspect if engaged in by his friends -- Sumner Kaplan was denied a judgeship for which he was clearly qualified. Fran Meaney would have been denied an equally justifiable contract if he had not accepted it at the price of Dukakis' friendship. Michael expected his friends to be above mixing public service and any private gain. Even minor political favors -- summer jobs, special license plates -- were ostentatiously abolished; a lottery was set up to distribute summer jobs. Not only was Dukakis unyielding on his promise not to raise taxes (it was his word...
JACKSON and Dukakis' friendship has been going down hill since they had dinner at the governor's home on July 4th. It is said that there were more fireworks in the Dukakis' home than there were...