Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that his father was a well-known oil executive. The Tisches say they went along because their lawyers could find no flaw in the prospectuses. In total, Atkins attracted investments of $36.8 million from 400 investors. If convicted on all counts, he faces up to 86 years in prison...
...stabbed to death by a drug addict. His dancers had regarded him as a martinet, and his board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more senseless Manhattan murder takes an abrupt turn when the killer is himself killed in prison after bragging that he was paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company's board chairman, is also friends with N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Bautista, who promises to "keep...
...returned home to Feliciana parish, that swath of Louisiana land running "from the Mississippi to the Pearl, from the thirty-first parallel to the Crayola blue of Lake Pontchartrain." More (a prominent, visionary presence in Love in the Ruins) has spent two years in a minimum-security federal prison in Alabama for peddling uppers and downers. "I needed the money," he tells the two physician friends who have been charged with overseeing his probation. Now Tom, alcoholism temporarily in control, needs to resume his psychiatric practice. The trouble is, no one in Feliciana seems to require the old- fashioned Freudian...
...Israeli government has resisted U.S. pressure. Moreover, many Israelis are concerned about the fate of Pollard and his wife Anne Henderson- * Pollard, 26, who this month was given a five-year prison sentence. An Israeli organization called Citizens for Pollard managed to collect $10,000 for the couple's defense fund. In addition, there were unconfirmed reports, subsequently denied by the Pollards' lawyers, that Israel had quietly paid about $75,000 of the Pollards' legal fees of about...
...takeover artists to amass their holdings. Last week Jefferies, 56, resigned as chairman of his company, agreed to stay out of the securities business for at least five years and said he would plead guilty to two felony counts that could bring him as much as ten years in prison. Jefferies was the only individual who was accused. Michael Singer, a former senior vice president who had been questioned in the case, was not charged...