Word: geiser
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...firm's chairman, was named in Merola's original indictment, but after he suffered a heart attack last June, the prosecution agreed to try him at a later date. That trial is scheduled for July, but it is unlikely it will ever be held. For his part, Theodore Geiser, attorney for the Schiavone company, is reviving a suit for damages he filed two years ago against Merola, accusing the D.A. of publicly making prejudicial statements about the defendants beyond what was charged in the indictment...
...examined by TIME, are among the papers obtained from the Schiavone company by Frank Smist Jr., 31, a University of Oklahoma student who is writing a doctoral dissertation on congressional investigations. Smist's air of naiveté apparently persuaded Ronald Schiavone, the company's chairman, and Theodore Geiser, its chief counsel, that Smist would consider the Donovan probes an example of investigative abuse. Accordingly, they asked the company's top detective, Robert Shortley, to turn his records over to Smist. Upon reading the papers, the graduate student was appalled by the company's espionage. Smist turned...
Shortley admitted to TIME that he did not realize that some confidential memos were stashed among the papers he gave Smist. Among them: a note to Geiser on June 1, 1982, in which Shortley reported, "I met with Ed Hickey on Sunday for several hours. One of the things we talked about was your 'If I were President letter.' " Hickey is a presidential assistant. In that letter Geiser explained that he wanted to advise Reagan what to say when asked about the Donovan case at press conferences. In another note to Schiavone, Shortley proposed "lunch with Ed Hickey...
...alleged links with mobsters two years ago, he knew that he was also being investigated: in an unorthodox move that infuriated Capitol Hill, the New Jersey-based Schiavone Construction Co., which is partly owned by Donovan, hired private detectives to find out who, according to Schiavone Lawyer Theodore Geiser, was "deliberately leaking information to the media...
...list of targets. Silverman said last week that he was "appalled" to hear Schiavone's agents had designated him for investigation and that he considered such actions to be "perilously close to obstructing justice." Sharer says Schiavone boasted of getting material from Silverman's staff. Schiavone Lawyer Geiser denies that the company received leaks from that office...