Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Howe has since secluded herself, reportedly at her grandfather's ranch near Austin, Texas (TIME's repeated attempts to speak to her, relayed to her lawyer, have gone unanswered). But in the interim she became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and is the purported source of contentious variants in the story of the Oklahoma bombing. Last week the McCurtain Daily Gazette, an Oklahoma newspaper, published what it said was an interview with Howe by J.D. Cash, whose work has also appeared in the antigovernment press. In Cash's interview, Howe says she learned that Mahon...
Howe's charges, if they are substantiated, may bolster McVeigh's defense. But it is unclear if his lawyer Stephen Jones will risk calling her to the stand. Her testimony could be effectively attacked by prosecutors, citing ATF records that show she was fired as an informant because of erratic behavior and unreliability. Still, Jones believes the government has proof that Strassmeir and Mahon were involved in a bombing plot and was "obligated" to disclose it. At any rate, in the wake of recent reports about faulty FBI lab procedures, the government does not need Howe's tales to muddy...
Linder, now rich enough not to worry, wondered instead about the poorest survivors struggling to get along, the ones without big Swiss bank accounts from the old days. "I thought, Why shouldn't this money be got for all Holocaust victims?" he says, and so he hired a lawyer to investigate, then threatened to sue the banks if they did not create a reparations fund. The banks were "negative, negative, negative...
...Linder is nothing if not tenacious--how else would he have come out of Auschwitz alive--and he made himself the bane of the banks. The Swiss press dubbed him David against Goliath. His lawyer bombarded the banks with letters and warned of lawsuits, but action was held up when one bank after another came forward with a promise to contribute to a fund. "My friends tell me enough is enough. But enough is not enough. The Swiss have the audacity to keep this money that does not belong to them and to make money with it. It should...
...disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money," says Nagel...