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F. Lee Bailey Begins 6-Month Jail Sentence
MIAMI — Grim-faced and silent, attorney F. Lee Bailey surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday evening to begin serving a six-month sentence for contempt of court after failing to raise the $2.3 million that would have kept him out of jail.
On his way to the U.S. marshal’s office in Tallahassee to begin his sentence, the 62-year-old lawyer bulled his way through a crowd of reporters, knocking one cameraman to the ground.
Federal prosecutors have charged Bailey with failing to hand over more than $21 million in stocks and cash that belonged to a drug trafficker who was once represented by the celebrated criminal defense lawyer.
Bailey has said that he was given custody of the stock to use as he saw fit and drew from it to pay his legal fees. But prosecutors argued that the stock became the property of the government when French American smuggler Claude Duboc pleaded guilty to drug and money-laundering charges.
Last month U.S. District Judge Maurice Paul, sitting in Ocala, Fla., found Bailey in contempt of court for failing to turn over the assets. The lawyer was to surrender last Friday, but a federal appeals court in Atlanta issued an emergency stay pending oral arguments. The three-judge panel heard the case Tuesda
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I.I.I. Mourns The Death Of William E. Bailey, I.I.I.s Special Counsel Since 1986
Industry Spokesperson and Disaster Communications Leader Hosted Syndicated Radio Program
INSURANCE INFORMATION INSTITUTE
New York Press Office: (212) 346-5500; media@iii.org
Washington Press Office: (202) 833-1580
BOSTON, MA., August 24, 2009—Dr. William E. Bailey J.D., CPCU, special counsel to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) and prominent industry spokesperson, died of cancer on Friday, Aug. 21. He was 68 years old and resided in Chelsea, MA, with his wife, Rene.
All of us will greatly miss Bill’s multitude of talents, perceptive intelligence, life-long dedication to learning, quick wit and boundless enthusiasm. We also remember with appreciation Bill’s outstanding work in disaster communications, having served as director of the first Hurricane Insurance Information Center following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and working at the scene of every major disaster since, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In recent years he continued to establish significant relationships between the insurance industry and the emergency management community,” said Dr. Robert Hartwig, president of the I.I.I. “And Bill’s weekly radio program was a valuable consumer education tool for the