Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been made so, in Ferraro's view, not by legitimate public interest in her family but by an excess of innuendo, including attempts to link Zaccaro with transgressions by tenants in buildings managed by his firm. Said she: "I think the public is entitled to know whether or not I'm married to Jack the Ripper. I think they're entitled to know whether or not we pay our fair share of taxes. But what I think is wrong is what's going on now. I mean, every day there is another story about another building...
Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports. Among the examples she cited were the screaming headlines in local newspapers about peeling paint and other minor building violations in properties managed by Zaccaro, despite a solid endorsement of his record voiced by a New York City housing official. As she put it: "Over a number of years, P. Zaccaro Co. [the firm founded by his father] has managed thousands of buildings, been involved in probably thousands of sales and maybe tens of thousands of leases. With all that volume, if you want to question...
...have been avoided, or at least prevented from reaching the dangerous point that it did, with a bit more foresight and more cooperation between the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. To begin with, the Mondale camp's prenomination review of the finances of Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro fell short of the rigorous inquisition some other potential vice-presidential choices and their families have been put through...
...Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros; Ferraro was added the next day. By Wednesday evening, when Mondale told Ferraro that she was his choice, his aides had had only about 48 hours to examine her records and those of Zaccaro. They missed at least one real estate transaction that Ferraro later conceded "doesn't look so hot." Could they have done a better job if they had been allowed more time? Says one Mondale aide: "Absolutely...
...more extensive review began after the nomination. Lawyers and accountants reporting to Mondale, including Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, examined the Ferraro and Zaccaro records and helped prepare the financial disclosure that Ferraro was obliged by law to make no later than Aug. 20. Oddly, though, Mondale and his aides admit they cannot recall asking for a specific pledge that Zaccaro would make his tax returns public. They knew that would be necessary, even though it is not required by law, and helped Ferraro draft a statement promising that it would be done; everybody seems simply...