Convention has lawyer at the helm

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Mario Cooper, attorney and convention manager for the 1992 Democratic National Convention, has an employment history spanning both politics and law. He went to work for the Democratic National Committee after graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont and followed that with a job in the Carter White House. After law school he was a lobbyist for the now defunct Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson and Casey. He sees lobbyists as coalition-builders and thinks the participation of attorneys has made lobbying more ethical.

Management, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Political activity, Democratic Party (United States), Political conventions, Cooper, Mario

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Gotti's defense faced setbacks; Albert Krieger was no Bruce Cutler clone

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Albert Krieger replaced Bruce Cutler as Mafia boss John Gotti's defense attorney during his fourth trial. His style was not bombastic like Cutler's. He prepared to defend Gotti by analyzing voluminous tapes the FBI had recorded secretly. He decided to concentrate on those where it was possible to argue ambiguity and disregard the rest. He received the government files on state's witness Salvatore Gravano less than two days before he took the stand. Although he lost the case, Gotti did not seem to blame Krieger for the outcome.

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They say he asks a lot of his lawyers

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Four attorneys have been disqualified from representing accused Mafia boss John Gotti and co-defendants at a racketeering trial being conducted at US District Court in New York. The attorneys, Bruce Cutler, Gerald Shargel, John Pollok and George L. Santangelo, appeared too often on government tapes of conversations with Mr. Gotti and were characterized as 'house counsel' for Mr. Gotti's racketeering enterprise.

Mafia, Disqualification of attorneys, Lawyer disqualification

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