"When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters." So said Attorney Milton S. Gould last September in arguing that his client, Miami Beach Industrialist Louis E. Wolfson, 55, was the innocent victim of a U.S. Government vendetta. A New York federal jury disagreed, found the high-flying Wolfson guilty on each of the 19 counts against him. Last week that conviction brought Wolfson, chairman of the Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction complex and one of the U.S.'s most controversial corporate raiders, a one-year prison sentence and $100,000 fine. Federal Judge Edmund L. Palmieri also sentenced a longtime Wolfson crony,...
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