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...financial wizards of organized U.S. crime, at last got his comeuppance, or at least some of his comeuppance. On the lam from the IRS since 1970, he was refused Israeli citizenship. Lansky finally returned to Miami to face trial on a criminal contempt charge-for failure to obey a subpoena. Lansky swore that his doctor had declared him too ill to make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with long-term sentences. After posting bonds totaling...
...reason to hold that these reporters, any more than other citizens, should be excused from furnishing information that may help the grand jury in arriving at its initial determinations." In a concurring opinion, Justice Lewis Powell Jr. stressed the "limited nature" of the decision. A newsman who feels that subpoena powers against him are being abused, Justice Powell wrote, "will have access to the court on a motion to quash and an appropriate protective order may be entered"-a proviso that suggests that the court would be willing to consider some form of privilege on a case-by-case basis...
...since the Caldwell decision, in spite of all our blandishments, they won't even talk to us on collateral subjects." Globe Assistant Managing Editor Timothy Leland thinks an upcoming investigative series could land six Globe editors and the publisher in jail if a grand jury decides to subpoena. "We spelled this out to one or two reporters whom we wanted to work on the story," he says. "They considered it combat duty and backed...
...Supreme Court ruled last June in the Caldwell case that the First Amendment does not guarantee that a reporter's confidential information or sources are safe from subpoena. However, the Court encouraged Congress and state legislatures to pass shield laws--statutes which protect a newsman's confidential sources and information from forced disclosure...
...hardly that. Though Gold predicts that the evidence amassed by him could "break the back" of organized crime, doubters point out that no subpoena was served on Carlo Gambino, the ailing "boss of bosses." Nonetheless, the investigation affords an intriguing look at the workings of both cops and capos and if Gold is right could result in a stunning series of indictments that would attack New York's embattled Mafia clans on yet another front...