Time: Tue Nov 26 05:57:51 1996
To: roc@xmission.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Orrin Hatch
Cc: 
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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. 
>[...]
>
>
>
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