Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charge that he had a clerk alter an itinerary for a January 1994 Dallas Cowboys football game to delete references to Tyson before giving the document to investigators. Smaltz is likely to pursue indictments of Tyson, its head of governmental affairs and one of its lobbyists. Espy's lawyer Reid Weingarten did not deny any of the charges but accused Smaltz of distorting "trivial, personal and entirely benign activities" into criminal wrongdoing...
...prove his charges, Smaltz does not need to show that Espy returned favors for gifts he received. But a jury in the District of Columbia, a city known for its skepticism toward government prosecutors, may wonder how much the public good was compromised. Says a Washington lawyer who has gone up against Smaltz: "Espy may have been foolish, stupid, negligent, even reckless. But to indict him for being good-time Charlie and not be able to show a quid pro quo" will hurt Smaltz's case. Smaltz did persuade a court to impose a $1.5 million fine on Sun-Diamond...
Before insulting a judge, remember: you can be reasonably sure he or she knows a good lawyer. This didn't put off Don Imus, the radio talk-show host mellow in voice but not outlook. When Deirdre Coleman, Imus' wife, asked to be excused from jury duty on a murder trial because Imus' show was covering it, Judge Harold J. Rothwax asked her to ask him not to cover it. The judge then relented, but not before earning Imus' ire. On his nationally syndicated show, the shock jock ranted against Rothwax, using such epithets as "Scuzwax," "Rothworm" and "senile...
...attorney for the Al Fayed family ? owners of the Ritz hotel that employed the allegedly drunken, speeding limo driver Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing...
Born the son of a Hungarian Jewish lawyer in 1930, Soros was a boy when the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944. They rounded up all the Jews they could find and murdered most of them in concentration camps. Soros survived only because his father--who had lived through the Russian Revolution--knew that this was a time to disobey orders. He bought the family false identity papers and places to live and hide...