The conduct alleged in the indictment ranges from the ambitious to the nearly silly: from extorting payments from a close associate to help win the boiler contract to altering a $7 receipt for a bagel sandwich and diet soda so that Mr. Seabrook was reimbursed $177 for the purchase.
He has been a close associate to many visionary filmmakers -- Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Lindsay Anderson, Mike Hodges, Alan Rudolph, Abraham Polonsky -- an innovative marketing executive at MGM and Warner Brothers, an independent distributor in the United States and the United Kingdom, a producer, documentary director, actor, and an award winning poster designer.
The page was sent to Ballou on 31 January 1968, several weeks before King was assassinated, by Lillie Hunter, bookkeeper for the SCLC and secretary to Ralph Abernathy – a close associated of King.
It was Mrs. Arroyo who appointed Chief Justice Corona, a longtime close associate, to the Supreme Court.
Furious, she did something she says now that she never would have been able to do before: she fought back, walking out with her clients and a cadre of close associates to form a new agency, The Continuum Crew.
Heaney, who can afford the luxury of referring to himself as "still a bit of an amateur", was the third in a troika of close associates to receive the honour.
The investigation found that before the Saints' season-opening game in 2011 against the Green Bay Packers, Payton received an e-mail from a close associate — believed to be Mike Ornstein, a marketing agent who is a convicted felon — that stated, in part, "PS Greg Williams put me down for $5000 on Rogers".
According to a close associate, the decision to retire this year was more his wife's than his.
He ordered the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, a government appointee and one of Mr. Zardari's close associates, to submit a personal report.
ALBUQUERQUE — A former financial adviser for the State of New Mexico told his partners at a secretly taped meeting that close associates to Bill Richardson, then the governor, controlled where they would invest the state's money, according to a lawsuit.
