Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were early signs that his financial wizardry was getting him into trouble. After an attempt by ISC to take over Colorado-based Holly Sugar Corp. in 1967, the Government indicted Kenneally's partner in the scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...
...jaunty and burly Irish-Catholic father of seven, Curran was U.S. Attorney in New York from 1973 to 1975. During his term, he convicted Mafioso Carmine ("Mr. Gribbs") Tramunti for trafficking in narcotics, and helped send Bernard Bergman to jail for operating a chain of nursing homes that were defrauding the Government. From 1968 to 1973, Curran was a member of the New York State commission of investigation, working on cases involving the awards of sweetheart contracts, pornography in Times Square and real estate tax swindles...
...flat. The two Lius were startlingly different in temperament. The pipa player is a genial fellow who entertained the Boston members backstage with Home on the Range ("I learned it for Kissinger's sixth visit"). The pianist, who spent most of the Gang of Four reign in jail, is a man of seething intensity. He came onstage with shaking hands, and shot through the Liszt with authority but blinding speed. At rehearsal, Ozawa had tried without success to slow Liu down. Finally, he said, "We shall try to support you." Just barely, the orchestra succeeded. The pianist defended...
Thus Bukovsky exploited the rivalries and hidden disputes among the KGB, prison administrations, schools of psychiatry and political commissars. Legal affronteries never won him liberty but a different form of freedom: the ability to choose jail over silence. His life as a moral goad was organized around the harsh facts of imprisonment. "Every time I was released," he writes, "my only thought was how to get as much done as possible, so that afterward, back in prison again. I wouldn't have to spend sleepless nights dwelling on lost opportunities...
...nothing.' 'And what about my sentence? Has it been quashed?' 'No, it remains in force.' 'So, I'm sort of a prisoner on holiday, on vacation?' 'Sort of.' " "They don't ever know either how to jail or release you properly," concludes Bukovsky. The Inspector General could not have said it better. -R.Z. Sheppard