Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative Boston lawyer and Harvard alumnus is expected to receive Attorney General Edwin Meese III's nomination for U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts...
...year-old lawyer's varied career includes Vietnam, service as a social aide to President Nixon, and the Massachusetts chairmanship of Citizens for America, a national conservative political action committee...
...defendant on this charge is Ralph Scopo, 57, a soldier in the Colombo family, and just as importantly, the president of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council before he was indicted. Scopo is accused of accepting many of the payoffs from the participating concrete firms. Scopo's lawyer admits the union leader took payoffs, but he and the other attorneys deny it was part of a broader extortion scheme. Since the Mafia leaders own some of the construction companies, said Dawson, the Government was claiming "that these men extort themselves...
...streetwise. Giacalone was an anomaly in the neighborhood; she wanted to go to college. At New York University she protested against the Viet Nam War, but was otherwise apolitical. Even though she opted for law school at N.Y.U., she was never sure that she wanted to be a lawyer. Later, while in Washington with the Justice Department's tax division, she began to do some work with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York's eastern division. She became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1979 and fell in love with being a prosecutor...
...Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A suspected eyewitness to the murder, Martinez was also, according to the Union, carrying papers detailing a "network of payoffs" that allegedly implicated the Mexican officials. Martinez's lawyer dismissed the report as speculation...