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...fourth insider trader this year who will do hard time. Levine had faced as much as 20 years on four counts of securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before the sentencing. In deciding on two years, Goettel cited Levine's "extraordinary" cooperation with investigators, which had helped them uncover a "nest of vipers" on Wall Street...
...Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, contending with a jury poorly suited to appreciate his subtle arguments. Tribe, a brilliant scholar and appellate hotshot with a poised, aggressive courtroom style--he is 6-2 in Supreme Court arguments--found himself talking to jurors who, as Judge Goettel admitted, "don't know much, because they are obviously the persons who start off with the least bias...
...jury found Moon guilty, and the appeals court upheld the conviction, despite Tribe's protests about the jury's quality and the misleading thrust of Judge Goettel's instructions to them. Tribe had to reshape his argument along constitutional lines for the next forum--the Supreme Court...
...government contends that all the evangelical furor is unnecessary, even irresponsible. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Devita, one of three government lawyers who prosecuted the Moon case, says that "the public statements of religious persecution are false. It was a tax case." Devita points out that when Judge Goettel denied Moon's motion to reduce his sentence on July 18, two days before Moon surrendered to Federal officials, Goettel said that "Moon totally misstated what was involved in the prosecution." (For instance, someone in the Moon organization manufactured documents purporting to show where the money in question came from--which lead...
...Moon use the controversial account (known within the church as "Father's money") for his personal expenses, but his $600,000 estate and lavish life style have naturally raised questions about the dividing line between pension and pillage. One of the defense's frustrated arguments, characterized by Judge Goettel as the "Messiah defense", was that Moon embodied the Church and its theological stance, and was therefore perfectly entitled to disburse its assets...