Word: trusts
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...Sacred Trust. Syracuse Police Chief Thomas Sardino and Onondaga County District Attorney Jon Holcombe are looking into the possibility of filing charges against Beige and Armani. A few attorneys have also expressed disappointment at the pair's silence...
However shocking the two lawyers' silence may have been, it appears to be legally sound. The American Bar Association's Code of Professional Responsibility upholds the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship. Almost unanimously, A.B.A. members agree that this "sacred trust" is essential if the attorney is to represent his client properly. "The conduct of the lawyers is absolutely correct," says Hofstra University Law Dean Monroe Freedman. "If they had acted otherwise, it would be a serious violation of their professional responsibility...
Surprisingly, no individuals, not even lawyers, are generally required to report crimes that have been committed (as opposed to crimes in preparation); only if they actually tamper with evidence are they vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice. Under U.S. law, an attorney's sacred trust belongs to his client, not to the court...
Kissinger has often talked of his relations with the press in terms of mutual trust. As he told ABC News' Ted Koppel recently: "If you mislead the press consciously and you're caught at it, your credibility is destroyed forever." Kissinger set out to secure tight control over the press with his very first National Security Council staff meeting in 1969. He alone, he told his aides, would deal with newsmen. Roger Morris, a former Kissinger assistant, recalls in an article in the current Columbia Journalism Review that he and his NSC colleagues "were authorized to explore secret...
Meanwhile, commercial banks face new checking competition from another source: Boston's Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds last week announced a plan that enables customers to write checks against interest-earning mutual fund accounts. Fidelity is starting a Daily Income Trust that will invest deposits of $5,000 or more in such high-interest securities as Treasury bills and bank certificates of deposit. Each investor who wants the service can also open a no-balance checking account at Boston's National Shawmut Bank. When the bank gets a check for payment, it will withdraw the funds from...