Sin in High Places

In a recent column entitled “Suckered,” John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review, charged that criminal lawyer Melvin Belli had hoodwinked him. Some ten weeks earlier Belli had telephoned Leonard and volunteered to review Charles Ashman’s The Finest Judges Money Can Buy. Belli suggested that the reviewing assignment would give him “an opportunity to tell some stories of his own with judges who could be bought.” Indeed it did. On November 18, Belli contributed supporting anecdotes to his review

of The Finest Judges Money Can Buy. The review itself glowed with praise:

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In a recent column entitled “Suckered,” John Leonard, editor of the New York Times Book Review, charged that criminal lawyer Melvin Belli had hoodwinked him. Some ten weeks earlier Belli had telephoned Leonard and volunteered to review Charles Ashman’s The Finest Judges Money Can Buy. Belli suggested that the reviewing assignment would give him “an opportunity to tell some stories of his own with judges who could be bought.” Indeed it did. On November 18, Belli contributed supporting anecdotes to his review

of The Finest Judges Money Can Buy. The review itself glowed with praise: