How the law's "junkyard dogs" forced the biggest liability settlement in U.S. business history and laid bare unprecedented corporate fraud. It began in New Orleans with the lung-cancer death of a small-time lawyer. It began in Kentucky when a $9-an-hour law clerk stole three boxes of incriminatin...
Schatz Goes to Albany THE SAME MONTH AS THE BIKINI test, July 1946, Vivian graduated from the Women’s College. Uncle Joe bought Schatz a secondhand car, and the young couple made their way to Albany, in upstate New York, where Schatz would start his new career as a civil servant employed by the s...
A lot of people are dying of cancer. —Grady Carter, August 9, 1996 It’s hard for me to understand why this hasn’t occurred sooner. —Samuel Gaskins, retired postal-service supervisor and foreman of the Florida jury that found Brown & Williamson guilty of negligence THE PHONE CALL from the ...