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...Work or Not? Did Boyle make a clean break with his law practice when he moved from an unpaid to a paid job with the committee in 1949? Boyle says that he did, but the details have an odd look. His former law associate, Max Siskind, a sharp, self-possessed Brooklynite, last week told the Senate committee that he has paid Boyle $100,000 in installments at irregular periods over the last two years and owes him $50,000 more. The payments, Siskind said, were part of a settlement he made with Boyle when Boyle left the law office. There...
...scraped off the door, and nobody was supposed to use it at all. Secondly, if Boyle really believed it was improper for a Democratic National Committee employee to represent a client for a fee, then he obviously couldn't have done any work on the cases he sold Siskind for $150,000. If he had not done any work, he was either defrauding Siskind-or getting paid enormous fees just for bringing the cases into the office when he was still the unsalaried boss of the National Committee...
There was one other detail. When Boyle quit his law practice in 1949, Lithofold had gone right on paying its $500-a-month retainer to Boyle's ex-partner, Max Siskind. The payments to Boyle had totalled only $1,250. The payments to Siskind, to date, had totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week...
...committee voted to subpoena Boyle's bank account this week. If the records should show that Siskind passed along any of his fees from Lithofold, then Boyle has lied to the committee under oath, and-a far worse crime under Boyle's Law-to old friend Harry Truman...
...began drawing a salary from the national party, he had his name dropped from the Lithofold payroll. Last week his office said that Boyle got $1,500 out of his brief formal connection with Lithofold. (The Post-Dispatch said it was $8,000.) After Boyle's withdrawal, Max Siskind, his law partner, was put on the Lithofold payroll instead. Siskind has collected $13,000, is still collecting...