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...bribe," said Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. "But that misses the point. There is a question about the appearance of virtue on the court." In fact, Fortas' action had been even more ill-judged than was at first realized. Not only had he received $20,000 from Louis Wolfson's foundation in 1966-not giving it back until eleven months later, after Wolfson had been indicted for defrauding stockholders-but he had also agreed to accept $20,000 a year for life. The payments were to go to his wife Carolyn, also a lawyer, if she survived...
...Justice compounded his own troubles-and the furor in Congress-by brushing off LIFE'S original disclosure of the Wolfson link with a preliminary statement that omitted so much that it was almost a falsehood. It was not until the FBI had quizzed Wolfson in prison-using the power of a grand jury to force his testimony and to give him immunity from prosecution in connection with it-that Fortas wrote a fuller statement, along with his resignation...
...kill. They simply wanted to do the job bloodlessly, or at least to make sure that Fortas' was the only blood spilled. As the LIFE story was being prepared, Will Wilson, Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division, had personally begun an investigation of the Fortas-Wolfson relationship. His findings were presented to Chief Justice Warren by Attorney General John Mitchell. The next day the Justice Department dispatched agents to quiz Wolfson in his cell at the federal prison camp in Eglin, Fla.; the material they wanted was in hand. Among other things, Wolfson believed that Fortas was going...
...still makes more than $100,000. They lived exceedingly well, but Fortas has also in the past freely donated his expensive time and talent to causes and people he believed in. As it happens, the recent pay raise for Supreme Court Justices was exactly $20,500-$500 more than Wolfson offered...
...influence-and the material goods both brought-that they believed they could do no wrong. Lyndon Johnson's self-righteous dismissal of his critics was not so very different from Abe Fortas' arrogant assumption that he had done nothing wrong in dealing with a man like Wolfson. "Fortas was the guy," one Johnson intimate remembered, "who was most responsible for Johnson's never answering criticism. 'Leave it alone,' he'd say. 'Don't dignify...