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Associate Justice Neil L. Lynch of the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday afternoon that Walsh can no longer serve on the council based on a state statute barring felons sentenced to prison from elected office...
What's left of McNall's empire is a shambles. According to bankruptcy-court filings, McNall owes Credit Lyonnais $121 million, the Bank of America $40 million and Merrill Lynch $37 million. What remains of his traceable fortune is in hock. Gone are a couple of his houses, gone his private jet and a few cars, his hockey team, his football team and his stake in a movie company. His coin business is in legal limbo. Creditors are queuing up to sue him. Soon McNall, the former boy tycoon, may not have an old -- or even a plugged -- drachma...
...have yet to see a Brink's truck following a hearse." Smitten by his swath and style, bankers fairly begged him to borrow their money; Merrill Lynch created three coin-trading funds for him to manage. McNall set up a bogus horse-appraisal firm, listing his chauffeur as owner and appraiser...
...last. Lately, his sports enterprises were no longer making big money, and the coin trade was ailing. Creditors called, and McNall scrambled for money. His associates began playing shell games with his various "companies," faking coin sales, borrowing from one bank loan to pay on another. The Merrill Lynch funds crumbled, obliging the company to cough up perhaps as much as $30 million in compensation to 3,500 investors and leading the fbi to investigate the disappearance of $3.3 million in coins from one of the funds. Having learned from the horse's mouth, so to speak, that McNall...
Strangely enough, it is only under the bizarre care of David Lynch that the monster is treated responsibly by its father. Henry allows the truly revolting creature to cry softly for days, taking care of it when it becomes sick, sitting up with it, before he finally loses control and attempts to kill the child. The result of this rejection is, suffice to say, horrific enough to become the climax of even a David Lynch film. The monster's relationship with the creator/father is one of competition and resentment for affection not bestowed...