Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent $1.8 million in personal funds, more than any other House freshman, $1 million of it in a last-minute media blitz. Though she never gave a detailed account of where it came from, Waldholtz insisted the money belonged to her and her husband Joe, a political consultant from Pittsburgh who was also her campaign treasurer. "We've worked hard,'' she would say. "And we're very blessed...
...account in Pennsylvania hadn't been transferred to Utah in time. "There were always explanations,'' says Peter Valcarce, manager of Enid's unsuccessful 1992 campaign and a consultant in 1994, who was paid with bad checks three times. "He said he wanted to keep his funds in Pittsburgh because he didn't want anybody in Utah to know how much...
...from their joint accounts. His family has gone to court in an attempt to find out what became of $600,000 that belonged to Joe's step-grandmother, 87, whose money Joe was supposed to be investing. As for the existence of a family trust, the elder Waldholtz, a Pittsburgh dentist, says it's news to him. That's bad news for Enid's father, who, according to Enid's statements to investigators, allegedly turned over $4 million in liquid assets to the couple in a swap that was supposed to bring him real estate from the presumed trust...
...reason for success? In the spirit of the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates, one word comes to mind: family...
...were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...