Word: weingarten
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...story grew, other reporters joined in. San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson flew to Seattle to interview financier Paul Allen, a key investor. Reporters Tara Weingarten and Lise Hilboldt filled in details of DreamWorks' film and TV plans. And bureau chief Bonfante sounded out tough-minded observers who could subject the company's projections to a skeptical view...
...last Thursday Clinger released copies of three checks totaling $135,000 to Brown from an entity called First International Communications Limited Partnership, an outfit never mentioned on Brown's 1993 financial- disclosure form. On each check a handwritten notation reads partnership distribution. Weingarten says the previously undisclosed partnership was the same entity as First International Communications and that the payments were just part of the 1993 divestiture. Maybe so, but the distribution checks-- dated April 1993, July 1993 and October 1993--were all issued well before his Dec. 15 divestiture date...
...Weingarten admitted that the timetable was ``confusing,'' but said it was of ``no legal or ethical significance.'' Clinger challenged this explanation: ``I think it is fair to ask how one receives a partnership distribution from a business entity unless one is a partner in it.'' Most of First International's income came from the interest on a promissory note issued by Corridor Broadcasting Corp., a firm formed by Hill during the 1980s. In 1986 Corridor borrowed $26 million from a Texas savings and loan to buy two TV stations. The thrift later failed and was taken over by the Federal...
...House members wrote President Clinton demanding that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown resign because of questions about his personal finances. The letter cited concerns raised in the news media about Brown's business dealings with a company owned by a Democratic Party fund-raiser. Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, denounced the attack as "extremely partisan" focusing "on allegations that were completely investigated (by the Justice Department). He was completely exonerated...
Meanwhile, Espy remains a major focus of the probe. Smaltz says he is investigating more than 30 allegations against the Agriculture Secretary. Espy's lawyer, Reid Weingarten, declared that Smaltz's growing staff and multiple subpoenas "suggest an investigation out of control or one with a funny agenda." His client, who leaves office Dec. 31, certainly faces a far longer wait for a resolution than nearly anyone imagined a few months...