Word: gofers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra scandal, insisting, "I was authorized to do everything that I did." Last week in a Washington federal courtroom, a more subdued North, now a blue-suited civilian with graying hair, took the witness stand and tried to convince twelve jurors that he had been merely a gofer, dutifully carrying out policy set higher in the White House. Surprisingly, the Government conceded for the first time that to some extent, at least, the former National Security Council aide was right...
THINGS CHANGE. Don Ameche is an aging artisan mistaken for a Mafia boss, and Joe Mantegna the gangland gofer who helps an old man come alive. David Mamet directed and co-wrote this beguiling men's club anecdote...
...shoe-shine man who agrees to take the fall--and endure a three-to five-year prison sentence--in place of a mobster accused of murder. In return, he is to be paid enough money upon his release to realize his lifelong dream of owning a boat. Inept mob gofer Jerry (Mantegna) must babysit Gino until the court date. The plot turns on whether Jerry can keep Gino from changing his mind and escaping from his Chicago apartment before the trial...
...Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean and took trips to the Bahamas on Hetrick's 46-ft. trawler, the Highland Fling, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hetrick also owned five airplanes and a 53-ft. yacht, the Ivory. Arrington, said a former Morgan employee, was "a kind of super gofer" for Hetrick...
...tricky part of any drug deal: the exchange. Hetrick said the cocaine was secreted in a car. Arrington, Hetrick's gofer, drove the C.I. and Scotti to the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley. Arrington parked the car and went off to get the drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with...