Time: Tue Nov 26 05:57:51 1996 To: roc@xmission.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Orrin Hatch Cc: Bcc: the "timing" is deep pockets. Quelle coincidence, n'est pas? /s/ Paul Mitchell At 07:07 AM 11/26/96 -0500, you wrote: >This may be a little off-topic, but only a little. > >The feds just noticed that a fugitive had been using a dead man's SSN for >23 years and picked him up. The fact that his attorney, Orrin Hatch, is >is on his way out of the Senate probably had nothing to do with the >timing. > >bd > >******* > > >AP 11/25/96: > > KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A millionaire fugitive who fled Colorado 23 years >ago to avoid a prison sentence assumed the identity of his wife's dead >grandfather and lived a lavish lifestyle before his capture, authorities said. >Federal marshals arrested George I. Norman, 66, on Thursday outside a >Knoxville motel. His wife, Donna Sorbo Norman, 36, also was taken into custody. > > "There are some estimates that he may be worth $50 million," said Bobby >Lloyd, a deputy U.S. marshal in Denver. "They were big high-rollers, >country-club types, golf and tennis every day, black-tie affairs," Lloyd told >The Knoxville News-Sentinel. [...] > > Norman's flight from justice began on March 13, 1973, when he was supposed >to turn himself in the U.S. marshal's office in Denver to begin a two-year >sentence for misappropriating more than $500,000 from a Colorado bank. > One of his lawyers -- now U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah -- asked marshals if >Norman could make a few final phone calls before surrendering. According to >several accounts, Norman and Hatch drove to the office of another lawyer and >then Norman drove off, leaving a befuddled Hatch standing on the sidewalk. >[...] > > The couple went by the names and Social Security numbers of Sorbo's deceased >grandparents, Tom and Lin Dangelis, authorities said. Marshals began to close >in on the couple after discovering that the Dangelis' Social Security numbers >were still being used. >[...] > > > >
Return to Table of Contents for
Supreme Law School: E-mail