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Beebe used his financial institutions to bankroll everything from polo fields to time-share condos and mini-warehouses. Though a 1987 federal case against Beebe ended in a mistrial, the Government has contended that he was one of his own biggest customers, using the network of banks and thrifts to finance ventures in which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics...
...with jail because she insisted on referring to herself as Ms. Wolvovitz rather than Mrs. Lobel, after her husband. Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling." When Wolvovitz asked for a mistrial last week, Teitelbaum said, "What if I call you sweetie...
...trial controversy drew national attention, the judge apologized, vacating Pushinsky's sentence and explaining to Wolvovitz, "This is the way my generation was taught." The two lawyers may regret passing up the judge's belated offer to declare a mistrial. When the jury returned its verdict, they lost their case...
Defense lawyer Herbert J. Miller Jr. told Jackson he would file motions within 30 days asking that a mistrial be declared...
...theory behind it." The sensation of what was primarily a dozy trial came just after the jury began deliberating. One juror apparently suffered an attack of panic; she locked herself in a bathroom chanting, "The Lord is my shepherd." Judge Collins rejected appeals by several defendants to declare a mistrial. He seated an alternate juror, who concurred in the verdict of acquittal...