Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saranow and his personal lawyer, Richard Trattner, a former IRS employee, carried out an unauthorized "amnesty" program for Trattner's tax-evading clients. For years, Trattner supplied the IRS with anonymous, remedial tax payments from the clients, as well as keys to hidden safe-deposit boxes containing the unfiled tax returns of the cheaters. The purpose: to reduce the culpability of Trattner's clients in case they were investigated. If that happened, Trattner would steer the IRS to the tax returns as evidence of his client's participation...
...suffered a heart attack and battling pneumonia. A man and a woman hovered by her bedside, and the emergency staff assumed they were worried relatives. Then the man pulled out a yellow pad, asked for the correct spelling of Weisenseel's last name and identified himself as the family lawyer. "I kind of lost it that day, and I told him to get out," Weisenseel recalls. "That may have been the most distressing situation I've had in 22 years of practice...
Stevens promptly issued a statement from jail categorically denying police claims. "I am not the Green River killer. They have made me out to be a very bad person, and I am not," he declared. His lawyer Craig Beles says his client "is a colorful character, but he's no murderer." Students and faculty at Gonzaga, who describe Stevens as quiet and studious, were stunned by the allegations that he may have lived a secret life. Chris Bales, a former Gonzaga law professor who taught Stevens criminal law, characterized him as a "gentle fugitive" who posed no threat to society...
...problem. In sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh suggests that abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is a Baton Rouge, La., housewife too decorous to go mad. Things with her lawyer husband John (Peter Gallagher) are fine, she tells her therapist, "except I'm havin' this feeling that I don't want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle Ann, and when John...
Republican Governor James Thompson has vetoed antiabortion legislation. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, the most likely Democratic candidate to try for Thompson's job next year, has announced his personal opposition to abortion and, as the state's top lawyer, is obligated to uphold some restrictions the state did enact. So which one is angling for the pro-choice vote? Guess again. Thompson's vetoes were cast on the ground that the legislation involved was unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade. But after the Supreme Court's Webster decision last week suggested that those restrictions might be constitutional after all, the Governor...