His final deception ends with two shots; the lawyer slipped repeatedly past employers and bar committees until now
Article Abstract:
Gary Nothstein's July 20, 1995, suicide in Washington, DC, ended a dozen-year deception that reflected a true passion for legal work. After earning a master's degree in 1974 from the Georgetown University Law Center, he rose to become partner at a Baltimore law firm, then was disbarred in 1984 for embezzling $40,000 he felt the firm owed him over a book. Experts on both sides of that case said he had a personality disorder. Since then he passed himself off repeatedly as a paralegal or recent law-school graduate.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Dirty money regs spark biz uproar: red tape seen for nonbank financial industry, e-cash
Article Abstract:
The Treasury Dept Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) issued regulations for nonbank and electronic financial services in an attempt to stop drug money laundering. Some in nonbank services like currency exchanges and Western Union-type money transmitters doubt FinCEN's registration and cash transaction report filing requirements will be effective. FinCEN's chief counsel Stephen Kroll states, however, that such registration is a step to try and stay ahead of criminals.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Lawyer's subpoena in probe is called unusual
Article Abstract:
Independent Counsel Kenneth W Starr subpoenaed Williams & Connolly partner David E Kendall regarding Hillary Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records on Jan 26. The move is highly unusual but not out of the question, say experts, especially if document production is in question and was not handled by someone else. Most senior attorneys queried said they had never heard of a grand jury subpoena of a person's lawyer except regqarding the source of fees from a drug-defendant client.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Issue is decentralization. Ford thinks it has a better idea: hardball; the automaker has thinned its outside counsel and adopted a tough pretrial settlement stance
- Abstracts: Cases refine definition of federal powers: three significant decisions this term examined the appropriate role of a central government
- Abstracts: Educating small firms on legal technologies. Supporting firms that strive to donate services. Addressing implications of digital signatures
- Abstracts: DOJ adopts ADR program: plan expected to speed up, reduce cost of civil cases. A circumstantial case: low-tech typewriter may help convict unabomber suspect
- Abstracts: A case of first impression: American Indians seek cancellation of the trademarked term "Redskins." Trademark law in the computer age: applying trademark principles to the "look and feel" of software