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Short, chunky and menacingly combative, Harvey Myerson is one of the country's most talented trial lawyers. But according to charges that will be heard in Brooklyn's federal courthouse next week, he is also one of the most tainted. After building a reputation representing the likes of Donald Trump, Shearson Lehman and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Myerson stands accused of swindling $3.5 million from clients and partners and faces as much as 20 years in prison. Said prosecutor Sean O'Shea after the initial indictment last year: "We have here an unprecedented pattern of greed and dishonesty...
...long after Myerson emerged as the firm's key partner, Finley collapsed into bankruptcy amid power clashes, soaring salaries and strangling debt. In his vengeful 1990 book, Conduct Unbecoming, former partner Steven Kumble tags Myerson as the main culprit in the breakup, partly because he squandered money. "Harvey is a compulsive spender, and to some degree he can't control it," explains Kumble. Myerson was equally obsessed with his looks. "Harvey had a series of toupees, of different lengths, that looked like old Knute Rockne football helmets," Kumble recalls. "He'd keep changing them and then...
...surprise that so many otherwise savvy lawyers kept signing up with Myerson, even after the Finley debacle. The law firms he was associated with are symbolic of what New York University law ethics professor Stephen Gillers calls "the new disloyalty," which swept the profession in the '80s. "Harvey has to be pathological to have told so many lies so constantly," says former law partner Leon Marcus. "He was always trying to prove he was bigger and better than everyone else. But I wish they didn't indict him. He's dead already. Who the hell would hire...
...Harvey Araton and Filip Bondy...
...just 260 pages, these two New York Times sportswriters, Harvey Araton and Filip Bondy, do their best to damage the reputation of the Celtics organization and of nearly anybody who might have made the Celtics organization look good in the last 40 years. That list includes legendary franchise figure Arnold "Red" Auerbach (whom they label "the Godfather"), Boston Globe writers Bob Ryan and Will McDonough ("mouthpieces" for the organization) and former Celtic M.L. Carr (house Black...