Business: A. P.'s Net

Oetje (pronounced eachie) John Rogge was a Harvard Law School classmate of Tommy Corcoran, currently has the juicy job of handling SEC's attack on Transamerica Corp., the $138,000,000 bank holding company accused of registering "false and misleading statements."

Transamerica's boss, old Amadeo Peter Giannini, having retorted that it was simply a matter of accounting theory, began fighting SEC with all the wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three...

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