The private life and public death of David Schwartz

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David Schwartz was a partner at Cravath, Swaine and Moore and head of the firm's 20-attorney real estate section. He was also apparently a gay who was still in the closet and was allegedly murdered in a homosexual tryst gone wrong. A posthumous search of his office revealed it to be completely free of any traces of his personal life and his wife and children were unaware of his sexual preference as well. It is estimated that there are many like him in the New York legal community.

Sexual behavior, Gays, Lawyers, Crimes against

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Novel trial on billing set to begin

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Prominent trial lawyer Harvey D. Myerson faces federal racketeering charges in a trial beginning Mar 9, 1992. Myerson is accused of running the firm of Myerson & Kuhn as a racketeering enterprise, through which he and several associates overbilled clients and stole from the firm. Some former Myerson colleagues have received immunity in return for their testimony. Myerson is serving as his own counsel, with assistance from court-appointed attorney Jeremy L. Gutman.

Lawyers' fees, Racketeering, Myerson, Harvey D.

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'Intangible benefits' at issue in trial on bond trades

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US v. Scherer is the first federal securities case applying that part of the fraud law which criminalizes depriving someone of 'intangible benefits.' The brokerage firm Merrill, Lynch & Co charges that fraudulent high-yield bond trading by a former employee deprived the firm of money. The defendants admit that they violated in-house Merrill Lynch procedures, but deny that they violated a federal law.

Securities fraud

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