... Shea is the most powerful unofficial manipulator of political influence in the state . . ." "...'A guy who was talking bad about me was up. By Nicholas Pileggi It seemed as though they had been waiting hours for Bill Shea to arrive. Not ...
... Shea & Gould for years. The partners enjoyed all the warm collegiality of the Bosnians and Serbs. The firm's corporate culture was a casualty of interoffice war. It hadn't always been so. For most of its 30 years, Shea & Gould was the ...
... Shea, at the office in 1989. could have avoided the breakup the same way you do in a marriage — by being compassionate, fair, and disciplined. But they didn't have those qualities. These are guys Shea and I brought in from nothing ...
... Shea, a former top-ranking Teamster. Genoese was on Shea's slate. According to D'Arco, the Shea slate was secretly backed by the Lucchese family. The leader of Pennsylvania's Teamsters, John Morris, told IRB investigators that Shea, the ...
... Shea's clients enjoy phenomenal clout. Shoup Voting Machines, for instance, sold $8.5-mil- lion worth of equipment to the city without competitive bidding shortly after Bill Shea took up its cause. It was the first time in 37 years that ...
... Shea.' Then he threw one of his tantrums." Constance may not be Shea, but he is a table-hopper at San Pietro, a client-grabber, a marketer of refrig- erators-to-Eskimos caliber. "He's the best salesman in New York," says someone who ...
... Shea & 1 Gould represented the epitome of legal power in New York. Led by two attorneys who combined courtroom skill and political clout, Shea & Gould went to bat for rich and powerful clients. So entrenched was the firm in the life ...
... Shea & Gould for a half-million in fees by the time the dissolution is complete. "I think he's Dr. Death," says one partner. "Our own little Kevorkian." In its death throes — the past three weeks — Shea & Gould has kept jerking and ...
... Shea & Gould for years. The partners enjoyed all the warm collegiality of the Bosnians and Serbs. The firm's corporate culture was a casualty of interoffice war. It hadn't always been so. For most of its 30 years, Shea & Gould was the ...
... Shea did not mention the more likely method for bailing out the Garden Corporation. He did not mention the possibility of the state's new Sports Authority and its new chairman, Suffolk County Republican leader Edwin Schwenk, using some ...