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...Agent Benedict Tisa was in his third day of hammering cross-examination by Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman, and he was beginning to get rattled. Tisa had masqueraded as a corrupt banker in the Government scam that snared Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean, currently on trial in Los Angeles for conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his failing sports-car company. Weitzman questioned Tisa about the log he kept of the four-month investigation that culminated in De Lorean's arrest in October 1982. Some of the entries in the 28-page handwritten document were...
...This is the big guy, and they smell blood, blood." The lawyer's voice lowered ominously: "There is no stopping them now. It is like sharks in a feeding frenzy." Pacing before the jury of six men and six women, wiry, emotive Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman was a consummate showman. Stolid in contrast, Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Walsh meticulously outlined the Government's case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair...
...opening statement, Weitzman declared that federal agents had ruthlessly taken advantage of De Lorean's financial woes to entrap him in an operation the lawyer likened to the movie The Sting. De Lorean, he claimed, had been "framed," then threatened by FBI Informant James Hoffman, a convicted cocaine dealer and admitted perjurer. "John De Lorean was sucked into this," Weitzman said over and over again. The videotapes, he said, were "produced, choreographed and directed to make De Lorean look guilty...
...Jersey estate worth $4 million and a 20-room Manhattan apartment, also worth $4 million. They sued again last week to prevent De Lorean from selling or transferring his 48-acre California estate, valued at $4 million. Without that money, said his lawyers, De Lorean was "penniless." Said Weitzman of his once extravagant client: "He has been brought to his knees...
...Lorean's chief defense attorney, Howard Weitzman, was naturally upset at the premature presentation of evidence that would have been hard enough to deal with during the trial. The lawyer had tried to prevent the broadcast after he learned from CBS that it had the tapes. Weitzman raced into the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, who will preside over the trial, and demanded a temporary restraining order. Judge Takasugi quickly complied. But an appeals court just as quickly struck down his order. After CBS aired the tapes, Takasugi denounced the network for "interference" in the judicial process...