Word: hires
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...entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter went with the lower bid by Geffen because he agreed to hire producer Joel Silver, who handled Lethal Weapon...
...federal forfeiture laws have already changed the way many drug and racketeer defense lawyers do business. "If someone comes to hire me in a federal narcotics case, my first goal is to find out if the pay is legitimate," says Orlando attorney Cheney Mason. The forfeiture laws have also placed some practitioners on the defensive, quite literally. Since last year, Houston attorney Mike DeGeurin has been fighting the Justice Department over a subpoena to testify before a grand jury about the source of fees. The subpoena was served on him even before his client was indicted. The IRS is pressing...
...deductible business expense. Milken could thus be eligible for up to $112 million in tax write- offs. "This is what happens when you have corporate criminals whose penalty is basically monetary," declares Michael Waldman, a tax specialist for Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group. "They hire the best lawyers and tax advisers money can buy to figure out ways to deprive society of its debt, in years and dollars...
...private jets, inside the scuzzy trunks of old cars or even on flimsy rubber rafts equipped with cellular phones, the shipments of human cargo are surging. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to stem this tide, mostly by beefing up enforcement and nabbing employers who hire these aliens. But the number of illegals apprehended by federal agents, 954,000 in 1989, is suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated 3 million illegals entering...
IRCA set fines and jail terms for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, but the law is a sieve. It requires only that the boss examine any two of 17 proofs of citizenship, some of which, baptismal certificates for example, have thousands of acceptable variations. This has produced a cottage industry in bogus documents. The INS, which estimates that more than 500,000 aliens have used fake papers, is now confiscating more than 10,000 such documents annually (plus 5,000 smuggler-owned cars) just at the main San Diego border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead...