To the Editor:
I read with interest and some astonishment the error-filled and badly misleading review of my book Heist by Chris Lehmann [“The Gaud That Failed: A Tour of New Jack City,” Oct. 2]. To set the record straight on several facts, the following points are worth noting. Mr. Lehmann is wrong that Read More
When future historians of the current Gilded Age in our nation’s capital need to designate its zeitgeist-on-horseback, there’s little doubt that Jack Abramoff will be the man—or, as he was given to spell it in his voluminous collection of frat-boy-voiced e-mails: “da Man.”
Now so universally known in news reports as “disgraced superlobbyist” that it Read More
Tom DeLay resigned his Congressional seat with all the dignity, discretion and probity that have marked his decades in politics. Leaving office just steps ahead of the law, with prosecutors from the Justice Department’s public-integrity section in hot pursuit, he delivered a farewell speech blaming others for his problems and blithering on at length about Read More
For a crude bully who used to bray about lining up Democrats and anti-war protesters to be “shot,” Randy (Duke) Cunningham cried like a little baby the other day when he finally admitted taking millions in bribes from defense contractors.
Forced to resign his office immediately as part of his plea bargain with federal Read More
For a crude bully who used to bray about lining up Democrats and anti-war protesters to be “shot,” Randy (Duke) Cunningham cried like a little baby the other day when he finally admitted taking millions in bribes from defense contractors.
Forced to resign his office immediately as part of his plea bargain with federal prosecutors, Read More
From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings surveyed the hushed crowd that had gathered at the May 8 memorial service for public-relations man John Scanlon. “Take a look around you this morning, and you will see the depth and the breadth of John’s connections.” Those who Read More
From the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, ABC news anchor Peter Jennings surveyed the hushed crowd that had gathered at the May 8 memorial service for public-relations man John Scanlon. “Take a look around you this morning, and you will see the depth and the breadth of John’s connections.” Those who Read More
