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Date: Thursday, June 21, 2007
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http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_0106/00000271.htm ================= Marvin Glass From: Novato Bon to Jasper Date: January 26, 2006 Time: 02:10 AM --------------------- Comments: Great site! Newbie here, but wanted to comment on a post you made on Dec 27/05: <<<<<<We don't know how Fred and Patti got together. We do know that both were divorced and that Patti's former husband Marvin Glass was convicted of attempting to have his business partner killed. Investigators outside of law enforcement were either unable or unwilling to identify the business partner. Could he have been someone Patti knew well? Yes. Could that partner's association with Patti have been the real reason Glass tried to have him killed? Yes. Could he have been Fred Goldman? Yes. Could any of these things have had something to do with the FBI and West Coast crime boss Joey Ippolito? Yes.>>> Actually, the id of the perps was made public in the Chicago Tribune Archives. It's beyond stunning to me that author Scott Turow never went public with his roll in the Glass case! You should know that the Pritzker family MAY be the same family that owns the Hyatt hotels (It's an unusual name and both are from Chicago). The Hyatt Pritzker's btw were legally represented by Sidney Korshak - allegedly a reknown BIG TIME 'fixer' for the Chicago mob [so much so, according to a piece on him in Vanity Fair, they bumped Jimmy Hoffa from the Presidential Suite when Korshak appeared unexpectedly in Vegas] and who also happened to have taken Robert Evans under his wing---(see The Kid Stays In The Picture) ~~~[It's also interesting to note that the Doumani brothers and Joey Cusumano who threatened Evans are now involved in the Crazy Horse Too topless bar bust presently coming down in Las Vegas ---try googling 'Rizzolo' and look at the older articles for their role in the current indictments etc]----The Pritzker's were also recently in the press---one of the grandaughters is suing for her inheritance that others apparently blew-------but I digress, back to Marvin: "In pleading guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of bribery (in 85-6}, [Marvin] Glass admitted that beginning in the early 1980's he gave advice and counsel to drug dealers who ran a marijuana farm in Eureka, Arkansas. He admitted that, for a fee, he introduced drug-dealer clients to other drug dealer clients so that they could sell narcotics to one another. He then represented them after they were arrested."...Glass also pleaded guilty to soliciting money from clients, including more than $20,000 in one instance, by promising to use the money to bribe judges. Instead, Turow claims, Glass pocketed the money. He also admitted taking money from clients for legal work that was not done and failing to report $37,000 on his 1980 income tax return." [Chicago Tribune: 7/17/86: "Sentencing Shoots a High-Roller Down" by Maurice Possley] February 6, 1981 ~ "Pritzker took the witness stand Monday, {7/14/86} to face Glass and recounted how he was shot in the ear while jogging in Lincoln Park on February 6, 1981. Pritzker blames Glass. Joseph De Cicco, a convicted burglar, testified that Glass promised to pay $500 to break the legs of Pritzker. Jack Kurnat, who was sentenced to 7 yrs in prison {in '86} after admitting he shot Pritzker, testified at the hearing that De Cicco promised him $2,500 to harm Pritzker because Pritzker owed $50,000 for a gambling debt to the owner of a suburban tavern. [Chicago Tribune, 7/17/86 "Sentencing Shoots a High Roller Down", by Maurice Possley, Chicagoland Section] ~~~~""Tough times for Michael L. Pritzker. The indictment of attorney Marvin Glass on extortion and narcotics charges revealed Glass and Pritzker were once law partners and alleges Glass hired two guys who shot and wounded Pritzker after a spat over a loan." [Chicago archives: "Like Father Like Son] "Pritzker took the witness stand Monday, {7/14/86} to face Glass and recounted how he was shot in the ear while jogging in Lincoln Park on February 6, 1981. Pritzker blames Glass. Joseph De Cicco, a convicted burglar, testified that Glass promised to pay $500 to break the legs of Pritzker. Jack Kurnat, who was sentenced to 7 yrs in prison {in '86} after admitting he shot Pritzker, testified at the hearing that De Cicco promised him $2,500 to harm Pritzker because Pritzker owed $50,000 for a gambling debt to the owner of a suburban tavern. [Chicago Tribune, 7/17/86 "Sentencing Shoots a High Roller Down", by Maurice Possley, Chicagoland Section] "Pritzker, who broke down on the stand (in 86} said he once confronted Glass about the shooting during a conversation in a downtown restaurant about 2 years after the incident. 'I thought half my head was gone," he said he told Glass. "Every morning when I get up I'm reminded of it....Marvin, you left me lying in the street for dead. You ruined my life. You ruined my kid's life." [Chicago Tribune, 7/17/86:High-Roller] "It involves his {Scott Turow's} decision to wire Chicago lawyer Marvin Glass in 1983 with the aim of recording conversations with Glass` client, Ronald Ofshe of Miami, who was facing Florida drug charges. Turow ordered Glass to drop out of the case when the taping was finished. Glass falsely told federal agents that the case had been dropped, but he actually stayed on the case for 10 more months and got several continuances." [Chicago Tribune.12/8/87] ~~~~"U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas said Turow's activities were 'authorized and in conformity with the guidelines of the Operation Greylord probe." A high roller whose expensive lifestyle was funded by drug-dealing clients, Glass came under investigation by Turow and eventually was indicted, convicted and sentenced to 8 yrs in prison. But in the course of the probe, Glass convinced Turow to permit him to wear a secret recording device and record conversations Glass had with Ofshe in 1983. Turow gave Glass the green light but admonished Glass that at no time was he to discuss any aspect of Ofshe's pending indictment. Apparently Glass believed he could blunt the federal investigation of himself by giving government prosecutors in Chicago information about Ofshe. Glass contended that the information would prove valuable in furthering the {Operation}Greylord probe of alleged wrongdoing in the Cook County Circuit Court." [Chicago Tribune:Chicagoland:8/5/87:"Attorney Panel Probes Lawyer, Author Turow"] ~~~~{entered here since Operation Greylord probe was in '82} <<<Unpunished Prosecutorial Crimes Against Defendants Some prosecutors don't stop at making grand jury witnesses out of criminal defense counsel. They even arm traitorous defense lawyers with bugging devices and direct them to get incriminating admissions directly from their clients' lips. Novelist Scott Turow, when a federal prosecutor in Chicago, did exactly that. An attorney named Marvin Glass came under suspicion in the federal corruption investigation dubbed "operation Greylord." To help himself, he cut a deal with Turow to provide information incriminating his clients. Among others, Glass was representing Ronald Ofshe, who had been arrested on cocaine charges in Florida. Turow equipped Glass with a body bug and directed him to talk with his client Ofshe while agents listened in. Glass continued to represent Ofshe for ten months, all the while secretly helping the Government convict him and others. The federal appeals court held that while the prosecutors' behavior was "reprehensible", it did not require any remedy; Ofshe had not been "prejudiced" by the fact that the person passed off to him as his lawyer was really a government informant.49 >>> {the footnote: United States v. Ofshe, 817 F.2d 1508 (11th Cir. 1987).} [taken from a website called "Beyond Prohibition" : The Drug War on the Constitution By Steven Duke https://www.cato.org/realaudio/drugwar/papers/duke.html ~~~1983-1993 ~ "'Sherman Skolnick, founder/chairman of a public interest group, Citizens Committee To Clean Up The Courts researching and investigating judicial bribery and political murders' ...some of the groups disclosures include: Touching off 'Operation Greylord', 20 local judges, 40 lawyers jailed for bribery." ~~~~"The case, which began 5 years ago {in 83}, involves Marvin Glass, a Chicago lawyer who was under investigation for tax violations. In a quest for leniency, Glass wrote, he agreed to provide prosecutors with information about criminal activities "engaged in or planned by my clients and others but unrelated to cases I was handling as counsel for my clients." In June 1983, Glass told the government that a client, Broward businessman Ronald A. Ofshe, wanted to sell 'a ton of marijuana.' Turow had FBI agents put a microphone on Glass to record a June 14 meeting with Ofshe in North Miami. Black, another attorney for Ofshe, objected when he learned of the circumstances. Black appealed Ofshe's indictment a year earlier for cocaine posession." [Sun-Sentinel:Dade Report: 1/19/88 "Case Against Former Prosecutor Similar to Plot of His Best Seller"] "In June 1983, Marvin Glass told the government that a client, Broward businessman Ronald A. Ofshe, wanted to sell 'a ton of marijuana.' Turow had FBI agents put a microphone on Glass to record a June 14 meeting with Ofshe in North Miami. Black, another attorney for Ofshe, objected when he learned of the circumstances. Black appealed Ofshe's indictment a year earlier for cocaine posession." [Sun-Sentinel:Dade Report: 1/19/88 "Case Against Former Prosecutor Similar to Plot of His Best Seller"] ~~~"Crowley alleged that {Marvin} Glass {who was representing Ofshe at the time} told {Scott} Turow that Ofshe wanted Glass to join him in buying a large quantity of drugs. When Ofshe urged Glass to join him in a crime, Crowley wrote, Ofshe 'stepped over the bounds of the attorney-client relationship' and became a legitimate target of a probe." [Chicago Tribune, Sect: Chicagoland, 'Lawyer Asks Appeals Court to Erase Accusation", August 7, 1987] ~ "June 1983, {Marvin} Glass told the government that a client, Broward businessman Ronald A. Ofshe, wanted to sell a "ton of marijuana." Turow had FBI agents put a microphone on Glass to record a June 14 meeting with Ofshe in North Miami. Black, another attorney for Ofshe, objected when he learned of the circumstances. Black appealed Ofshe's indictment a year earlier for cocaine possession {would have been '87}. "The minute Glass made an offer to sell his client out is the moment (Turow) should have said, 'Withdraw, or we will not deal with you anymore,' Black said. Anton Valukas, the US atty in Chicago, disagreed. He said Turow's actions were justified because Glass provided information that Ofshe was about to commit a new crime." [Sun-Sentinel, Dade Report, AP, Local Section, Jan 19, 1988] Early 80's ~ "In pleading guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of bribery (in 85-6}, [Marvin] Glass admitted that beginning in the early 1980's he gave advice and counsel to drug dealers who ran a marijuana farm in Eureka, Arkansas. He admitted that, for a fee, he introduced drug-dealer clients to other drug dealer clients so that they could sell narcotics to one another. He then represented them after they were arrested."...Glass also pleaded guilty to soliciting money from clients, including more than $20,000 in one instance, by promising to use the money to bribe judges. Instead, Turow claims, Glass pocketed the money. He also admitted taking money from clients for legal work that was not done and failing to report $37,000 on his 1980 income tax return." [Chicago Tribune: 7/17/86: "Sentencing Shoots a High-Roller Down" by Maurice Possley] May 1985 ~ Marvin Glass was arrested on charges of stealing money from his mother-in-law's safe deposit box at a suburban bank, and he was released on bond {This would've been Patti's mom!!} {Fred tells us in His Name Is Ron that Patti's mom's first name is Elayne} May 1985 ~ Marvin Glass is severely injured when he was hit by a truck near Ft. Lauderdale while standing beside a stalled car along a highway. ~~~~"Glass, who suffered brain damage after being hit by a semitrailer truck in Florida in 1985, " [1986 Chicago Tribune Archives :"Jail Term Doesn't Untangle Fee Snarl"] June 3, 1985 ~ "John Mecom, who was in his 4th year as the chairman of the Houston-based John W. Mecom Company, sold the New Orleans Saints to another car dealer Tom Benson, who became the team's managing general partner. The sale price for the team was $70.2 million. A native of New Orleans who also invested heavily in real estate and banking in Texas, Benson outbid the A.N. Pritzker family of Chicago, the owners of the Hyatt Hotel chain, which has also been represented by Sidney Korshak. However Benson was not the majority owner of the Saints. He had 11 partners." [Dan Moldea, Interference, p401] {Moldea went on to co-author VA & Lange's book} Monday, June 3, 1985 ~ Grand Jury indicts 13 people in conspiracy to import and distribute drugs in aid of a racketeering enterprise,..... 8 are still at large including Marvin Glass. 5 men are placed in custody in Texas, Florida and Kansas. Tues, June 4, 1985 ~ Federal authorities were searching for Marvin Glass. Wed, June 5, 1985 !~ Chicago paper, Section: Chicagoland, pg 3 by Lisa Hooker ~ "Chicogoan Hunted In Drug Case" ~ Federal authorities Tuesday were searching for Chicago lawyer Marvin Glass, one of 13 people indicted by a federal grand jury in a drug-smuggling case said to involve more than 50 people and $100 million in marijuana and cocaine. Asst. US Atty Bill Blag, of San Antonio, said that at least 100,000 pounds of marijuana and 50 kilograms (about 110 pounds) of cocaine have been smuggled into the US by the people indicted since June 1982. He said most of the drugs were earmarked for Chicago. Blagg said, "easily half, but probably between 50 and 75%" of the drugs were sold and shipped to dealers in Chicago, who were introduced to the smugglers by Glass, a former Cook County assistant state's attorney. Glass was charged with conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine as well as interstate transportation in the aid of a racketeering enterprise. He faces a 210 yr maximum sentence and a maximum fine of $2 million if convicted. Eight of the 13 people indicted by the grand jury Monday, including Glass, were still at large Tuesday, Blagg said. Five men have been placed in custody in Texas, Florida and Kansas on drug trafficking charges, Blag said. Blagg said the smugglers bought the drugs in Colombia and took them by boat to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. They were hidden in propane tanks there and driven across the bordr to San Antonio, he said. The propane tanks were often fitted with valves that would release propane gas if turned on. From San Antonio, the drugs were sold to buyers in Chicago and Denver, as well as Montana and California. Blagg charged that Glass, for a $7,500 fee and a commission based on the amount of drugs sold, would introduce prospective buyers from Chicago to the drug smugglers. Blagg said the investigation began in June 1982, when smugglers in Texas tried to sell 7,000 pounds of marijuana for $2.5 million to an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent." Thurs, June 6, 1985 ~ Chicago paper reports : "Marvin Glass, one of 13 people indicted by a federal grand jury in Texas in conjunction with a drug smuggling case was reported in serious condition in a Florida hospital. Glass, 40, a former Cook County prosecutor, also is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Chicago. He was severly injured last month {entered there as well} when he was struck by a truck near Ft. Lauderdale while standing beside a stalled car along a highway. Federal authorities, in Texas, who had said they were searching for Glass since the indictment was returned Monday, confirmed Wed that he had been located in the hospital. Bill Blagg, an assistant US atty in San Antonio, said the indictment charges that Glass was part of a $100 million ring that smuggled marijuana and cocaine from Mexico and Columbia to the US for distribution.. The indictment charged that Glass served as a middleman in drug transactions. Blagg said the ring has smuggled at least 100,000 pounds of marijuana and about 110 pounds of cocaine into the US since June 1982. He said most of the drugs were earmarked for Chicago. Glass, who lives in Northbrook, was charged with conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine as well as interstate transportation in the aid of racketeering enterprise. He faces a 210 year maximum sentence and a maximum fine of $2 million if convicted. A federal grand jury in Chicago has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Glass's financial affairs and into allegations that he was involved in the attempted murder of one of his former law partners in 1981. Glass was arrested last month on charges of stealing money from his mother-in-law's safe deposit box at a suburban bank, and he was released on bond. Blagg said the smugglers bought the drugs in Colombia and took them by boat to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. They were hidden in propane tanks there and driven across the border to San Antonio, he said." [Published 6/6/85 Section: Chicago-pg 6] 1985 ~ While in the hospital recovering from being hit by a truck Marvin Glass contracts HIV. late 85-early 86 ~{ Kim Goldman was born in 72--if she was 14 it would put it AROUND 86, Ron was born July 2 '68, so he'd be 17 in the second half of 85} ~ "[Kim Goldman's] devotion to Ron stems from her brother's heroic actions following a 'horrible car accident' that happened when she was 14 and he was 17, said a close source. The Goldman family was driving along a divided highway when an oncoming car careened out of control and slammed into the median. Huge pieces of the auto flew into the Goldman's car----and the battery went through their windshield. 'Battery acid spilled into Kim's eyes and shattered glass cut her face and neck. She was a bloody mess," said the source. "Ron quickly pulled her out of the mangled, smoldering car. "He wiped the acid and glass from her eyes, then held her and kept her calm until help arrived. Kim told me, 'Ron saved my life.' Added an insider: 'Kim said that although she suffered partial blindness, paramedicss told her that if it hadn't been for Ron she could have been totally blind. 'Kim told me she's had 10 surgeries to correct scars and other problems caused by the accident, and that she still has 4 to go." Before the accident Kim and Ron were already very close---they'd forged a strong bond after their mother abandoned them as children, a close pal told The Enquirer. "Kim was only a young girl at the time, but she was forced to take on the mother role in her family. She ran the household and looked out for Ron even after their father remarried." Then the scary crash drew brother and sister even closer together. 'They made a pact that they'd always be there for each other, no matter what." But when the 2 reached adulthood, Ron went his separate way and became a waiter...and a year and a half ago Kim enrolled in a course with the New Age cult Lifespring because she felt 'lost', said her pal. [7/4/95 National Enquirer, p24] ~~~~~Fred Goldman: "Prior to our Marriage {2/21/87} on a joint vacation to Florida, Patti, Kim, Ron and I had been involved in an automobile accident. A drunk driver, speeding on the opposite side of the boulevard, lost control of the car and mowed down several trees in the median strip. His car battery flew through the air and through our windshield, spewing acid. Ron and I were spared. Patti was burned slightly, but Kim caught the brunt of it. When Ron pulled her from the wreckage, he saw that her face and eyes were badly burned. Ron was at her side constantly in the hospital. For a time, her vision was gone and her face looked, as she put it, like barbecue. Ron fussed over her, catered to her, and assured her that she was still beautiful and that everything would be all right. " [FG-64] {How many times is this family victimized by oncoming cars that just happen to hit them?? Ya got this incident, Marvin's 'untimely' accident and the '97 scooter incident on Patti and Fred's vacation in Tahiti---in which PATTI got creamed, ~~~~~coincidence??} 1986 - Prosecutor Scott Turow describes Marvin Glass as "A one man crime wave and calls a witness who testified that Glass paid him $2,500. to shoot an ex-partner. Glass was confined to a wheelchair during the trial which his wife Patti (later wife of Fred Goldman) attended loyally every day." [New York Magazine issued 6/2/97] July 17, 1986 Chicago Tribune: <<<<<Date: Thursday, July 17, 1986 Source: By Maurice Possley. Section: CHICAGOLAND Copyright CHICAGO TRIBUNE SENTENCING SHOOTS A HIGH-ROLLER DOWN The high-roller world of Chicago attorney Marvin Jay Glass, whose lifestyle was supported by drug-dealing clients, was relegated Wednesday to eight years behind the walls of a federal prison. Behind him were the days of expensive antiques, fancy cars and lavish parties, including one in which he made a grand entrance perched on a rented elephant. Glass, with the help of a cane, went before U.S. District Judge John Grady and heard the judge intone: ``The sentence of the court will be eight years.`` Grady added that he could not ``muster any significant optimism that (Glass) will not continue to be a danger to the community.`` He then tacked on five years probation to the sentence, which will be served in a Springfield, Mo., federal prison. Glass, 42, already under a perjury conviction in Texas, also agreed to forfeit $350,000 to the government. He suffers brain damage sustained when he was hit by a semitrailer truck in Florida in 1985. Included in the forfeiture are a Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and a Rolls- Royce. His Northbrook home is being sold, and his wife has divorced him, refusing to allow his three children to see their father. In pleading guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of bribery, Glass admitted that beginning in the early 1980s he gave advice and counsel to drug dealers who ran a marijuana farm in Eureka, Ark. He admitted that, for a fee, he introduced drug-dealer clients to other drug-dealer clients so that they could sell narcotics to one another. He then represented them after they were arrested. A condition of the probation is that Glass, 42, refrain from practicing law and make no attempt to get his license back during the five years. ``He would be a dangerous person to ever again entrust a license to represent people,`` Grady said. ``The defendant is a member of a distressingly large group which has troubled this county for some time and shows no sign of being less troublesome. ``And that is the group of dishonest lawyers who practice in the courts of this district.`` Glass ``was a lawyer who didn`t hestitate for a second to sell out his clients,`` Grady said. ``He had not one iota of loyalty to clients, neighbors, friends.`` Federal prosecutor Scott Turow had urged Grady to impose a ``severe`` penalty--even more than the eight years Glass received from a Texas judge in March, after pleading guilty to participating in a $100 million drug importation ring. ``It is hard to imagine someone whose abuse of the justice system is more complete,`` Turow said. ``He has exploited that system. He has mocked that system. . . . He`s nothing less than a one-man crime wave.`` Grady said the Texas sentence was made up of a five-year term and a three-year term to be served consecutively. However, he said, the three-year term carried an immediate release provision for parole authorities. Because of that, Grady said, the Texas term was in effect only five years. He ordered that the Chicago sentence be concurrent with the Texas term. Turow noted the ´extraordinary manner in which (Glass) turned inside out the lawyer`s role--literally helping them perpetuate their criminal activities and then exploiting their criminality for his personal benefit.`` Glass also pleaded guilty to soliciting money from clients, including more than $20,000 in one instance, by promising to use the money to bribe judges. Instead, Turow charged, Glass pocketed the money. He also admitted taking money from clients for legal work that was not done and failing to report $37,000 on his 1980 income tax return. Perhaps the most bizarre allegation, which Glass denies, was that in 1981 Glass hired a group of thugs to break the legs of his former law partner, Michael Pritzker. The men had been feuding over financial matters relating to their separation as law partners in 1978. At a hearing Monday, Pritzker took the witness stand to face Glass and recounted how he was shot in the ear while jogging in Lincoln Park on Feb. 6, 1981. Pritzker blames Glass. Joseph DeCicco, a convicted burglar, testified that Glass promised to pay $500 to break the legs of Pritzker. Jack Kurnat, who was sentenced to seven years in prison after admitting that he shot Pritzker, testified at the hearing that DeCicco promised him $2,500 to harm Pritzker because Pritzker owed $50,000 for a gambling debt to the owner of a suburban tavern. Pritzker, who broke down on the stand, said he once confronted Glass about the shooting during a conversation in a downtown restaurant about two years after the incident. ``I thought half my head was gone,`` he said he told Glass. ``Every morning when I get up I`m reminded of it. . . . Marvin, you left me lying in the street for dead. You ruined my life. You ruined my kid`s life.`` However, during the sentencing Wednesday, Grady said he was not convinced ``beyond a reasonable doubt`` that Glass was responsible for the incident because of the conflicting stories told by DeCicco and Kurnat. Grady said he did believe other testimony that Glass once suggested that DeCicco and accomplices rob two of Glass`s drug dealer clients who were carrying gold coins; and also was convinced that Glass suggested DeCicco and Kurnat burglarize jewelry from a wealthy neighbor`s home, going so far as to explain where the alarm system was. Glass, who uses a walker to get around, shuffled to the podium and made a personal plea for mercy. ``I`m living in a prison in my body . . . the pain is unbelievable,`` he said. His voice cracked several times as he spoke. ``It just doesn`t seem to me that the court would throw me somewhere to die,`` he said. ``But that`s what I`m afraid is going to happen.`` Patrick Tuite, one of Glass`s lawyers, implored Grady to refrain from increasing Glass` prison term. ``Eight years is enough,`` Tuite said. ``He has no license, no job, no money . . . no home . . . no profession. . . . Mr. Glass has been disgraced, he has been shamed.``PHOTO: Marvin Jay Glass. (Photo was published on page 6D of the Du Page Sports Final Section.) Keywords: SUBURB DRUG SENTENCE BRIBERY FRAUD >>>>> ~~~~Taken from the Chi Trib archives 1986...<<<<<< JAIL TERM DOESN`T UNTANGLE FEE SNARL "Former Chicago attorney Marvin J. Glass was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1986, leaving two former clients in a legal snarl that is still being played out in federal court. William and Carolyn Percival have filed a claim before Chief U.S. District Judge John Grady seeking return of $66,000 in loans or legal fees paid to Glass for work that they say was not done. Glass pleaded guilty to racketeering and bribery arising from charges that he counseled drug dealers and introduced drug-dealing clients to one another to facilitate drug sales, then represented them after they were arrested. Glass, who suffered brain damage after being hit by a semitrailer truck in Florida in 1985, also forfeited $350,000 as part of his guilty plea. The claim, brought on behalf of the Percivals by San Francisco lawyer Bernard Segal, said that Glass was paid $15,000 to file tax returns for the Percivals, but kept the money and didn`t file the returns. Further, Segal said, the Percivals gave Glass $20,000 to represent them in a criminal investigation in Illinois, but that he eventually represented someone else in the case and kept the money. And they seek another $10,000 paid to Glass to represent them in a Florida drug investigation, which never took place.<< December 1987 ~ Kim Goldman's Sweet 16 Party - pix of Ron, Kim and Patti...[Fred Goldman's book - pix after pg 150] Tuesday, December 8, 1987 Source: By James Warren, Maurice Possley and Joseph Tybor. Section: BUSINESS Memo: On the law.Copyright CHICAGO TRIBUNE: PRESUMED INCENSED What began as a blot on the escutcheon of Chicago lawyer and best-selling novelist Scott (``Presumed Innocent``) Turow could swell into a potentially full-fledged stain, much to the dismay of Turow, a partner at Sonnenschein Carlin Nath & Rosenthal. He`s steaming over a ruling by the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that he describes as ``disgraceful.`` The court ruled last month that Turow`s investigation, while an assistant U.S. attorney, of a lawyer and client suspected of Florida drug deals may have obstructed justice. It involves his decision to wire Chicago lawyer Marvin Glass in 1983 with the aim of recording conversations with Glass` client, Ronald Ofshe of Miami, who was facing Florida drug charges. Turow ordered Glass to drop out of the case when the taping was finished. Glass falsely told federal agents that the case had been dropped, but he actually stayed on the case for 10 more months and got several continuances. The court found there was no cause to overturn Ofshe`s conviction, but in a footnote criticized Turow, who then asked the appeals court to delete the footnote. Instead, the court suggested a need for criminal sanctions against Turow for allegedly obstructing justice via the continuances Glass got. Turow`s boss, then-U.S. Atty. Dan Webb, approved the Glass bugging. Glass is serving an eight-year prison term for conspiring with clients to arrange drug deals. Tues, January 18, 1988 ~ Sun Sentinel {Miami}:"Case Against Former Prosecutor Similar to Plot of His Best Seller" : "Lawyer Scott Turow, who wrote a best-selling novel about wheeling-dealing prosecutors accused of various misdeeds, has been accused of violating the attorney client privelege. Turows novel, Presumed Innocent, has been on the NY Times Bestseller list for 30 weeks. Movie rights fetched $1 million and a paperback contract, $3 million. Like Rusty Sabich, the prosecutor-hero in Presumed Innocent, Turow sees himself as a lawyer unjustly accused. "I acted in this matter with the approval of the US Dept of Justice, the FBI, the US Atty for the Northern District of Illinois, and other supervisors in the US Attys office. " said Turow, who now practices law at one of Chicago's most prestigious firms." January 19th ~ Sun Sentinel, Dade Report: After same lead as on the 19th ~ "I believed then that what we did was lawful and necessary for effective enforcement of the law. And I continue to believe that today." In a letter to Kellner, the defense attorneys group contends that Turow's behavior was recklessly unethical. The case, which began 5 years ago, involves Marvin Glass, a Chicago lawyer who was under investigation for tax violations. In a quest for leniency, Glass wrote, he agreed to provide prosecutors with information about criminal activities "engaged in or planned by my clients and others but unrelated to cases I was handling as counsel for my clients." June 1983, Glass told the government that a client, Broward businessman Ronald A. Ofshe, wanted to sell a "ton of marijuana." Turow had FBI agents put a microphone on Glass to record a June 14 meeting with Ofshe in North Miami. Black, another attorney for Ofshe, objected when he learned of the circumstances. Black appealed Ofshe's indictment a year earlier for cocaine possession. "The minute Glass made an offer to sell his client out is the moment (Turow) should have said, 'Withdraw, or we will not deal with you anymore,' Black said. Anton Valukas, the US atty in Chicago, disagreed. He said Turow's actions were justified because Glass provided information that Ofshe was about to commit a new crime." {It's stunning to me that an author like Turow didn't go public during the trial with this information!!!} March 2, 1992 ~[Gambinos]: {Day 1 of John Gotti trial in Brooklyn ~ Salvatore 'Sammy The Bull'Gravano will be the next witness.} "The courtroom was packed. Every inch of seat room had been taken up. 15 hulking FBI agents and federal marshals filled the first 2 rows of the spectators section, forming a thick high wall between Gotti supporters Jackie Nose D'Amico, Peter Gotti, Joseph DeCicco, and the witness stand...Also present among the spectators were noted trial lawyer F. Lee Bailey, ...[Davis, Mafia Dynasty, p428-9] {Joe DeCicco was hired by Marvin Glass to kill his partner} A lot of these locations dovetail with Wasz and Ip ---hoping to look into that a little closer, but just haven't had the time lately. One more thing that's odd. A friend recently looked on People-Search and found a Marvin J. Glass currently living in Northbrook area of Chicago as well as Brian (one of Marvin's sons) ....kinda hard to do when you're supposedly dead. PS ~ Speaking of Joey Ip, there's a recent photo of him posted on an incredible new blog www.hollywoodmafia.com Also ckout the blog there: www.hollywoodmafia.blogspot.com ---fascinating reading! Posters who have responded are saying it's Kenny Gallo (he mentions his ex-wife is porn star Tabitha Stevens) --------------------------------- Last changed: 01/26/06