Political Justice Ii Guilty Of Being Rich

ON Tuesday October 26, 1993, Leona M. Helmsley was set free from federal prison. Her long ordeal began on April 14, 1988, when U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, with an eye toward the next day’s headlines, announced her indictment for tax fraud. The injustices Leona Helmsley suffered are a product of prosecutorial abuses that no civil society should permit.

The government had picked its annual April 15 tax-fraud case with care. Here was a defendant everyone would recognize. For years, glossy magazines had carried Helmsley Hotel ads featuring a smiling Leona checking pillows and towels. Newsweek zeroed in on Leona and pictured her on its cover under the infamous headline, “Rhymes with Rich.”

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Paul Craig Roberts

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ON Tuesday October 26, 1993, Leona M. Helmsley was set free from federal prison. Her long ordeal began on April 14, 1988, when U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, with an eye toward the next day’s headlines, announced her indictment for tax fraud. The injustices Leona Helmsley suffered are a product of prosecutorial abuses that no civil society should permit.

The government had picked its annual April 15 tax-fraud case with care. Here was a defendant everyone would recognize. For years, glossy magazines had carried Helmsley Hotel ads featuring a smiling Leona checking pillows and towels. Newsweek zeroed in on Leona and pictured her on its cover under the infamous headline, “Rhymes with Rich.”