Leftovers Gone Bad

...The career of Bloom, who teethed on the late-'60s student-activist movements, struck a chaste contrast to that of his colleagues on the city council, nearly two dozen of whom have faced corruption charges since the '70s...

...humanity in the late twentieth century...

...Though he never achieved critical mass nationally, Einhorn still made all the right stops: Esalen, La Honda with Ken Kesey, and sleepovers at Jerry Rubin's...

...He didn't chop my head off," said one Baba Cool...

...He attracted attention from the likes of futurist Alvin Toffler and the Bronfman family (as in the Seagram Liquor Bronfmans), and it was not unusual to find Main Line denizens and GE and Bell Telephone executives huddled around Einhorn's smelly feet in his apartment, getting contact buzzes from their zeitgeist windsock...

...And there was much to be angry about, like the "advanced capitalism and . . . market mentality that does warp us," as well as the constant struggle to balance personal values "with the business of making money"—which he's made plenty of, despite his conflicted innards...

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...Einhorn, in turn, was deemed the "Vieux Baba Cool" (Old Cool Daddy), and like him, his proteges didn't seem terribly bothered by his past...

...Carey, who's also been called "Mr...

...magazine recently ranked the Share Group, the lifetime activist's telemarketing organization, as one of the fastest growing companies in the country...

...Einhorn claimed he had been framed by the CIA and/or KGB, while community pillars vouched for him as character witnesses, including an Episcopal bishop who had put him on the diocese payroll so Ein-horn could educate him on Marxism and youth culture...

...By 1979, the airwicks couldn't preserve Einhorn's alibi when a detective opened a steamer trunk in his closet and found Holly Maddux in a fetal tuck, down to 37 pounds of mummified leather, with 10 to 12 skull fractures and holes so gaping, the coroner couldn't tell how many times she'd been struck...

...He can now add to that list a federal grand jury, which this July handed down a 14-count indictment of Mr...

...By now the aging student radical is used to disappointment: Over the years, movement superstars have turned on themselves (Abbie Hoffman ingesting alcohol and 150 phenobarbital), have turned on one another (Huey Newton sodomizing Bobby Seale with a bullwhip), and have turned into Republicans (Eldridge Cleaver after marketing jeans with sewn-in codpieces...

...It's an excuse as salable as the rest...

...We live them every day...

...Additionally, investigators allege, to reimburse Barbara Arnold for the shortfall not covered by the original transaction, Ansara was paid $75,000 for services he never performed by Citizen Action, an environmental/consumer watchdog group he helped found (and one riddled with its own unrelated corruption allegations...

...She then wrote a $95,000 check to the Teamsters for a Corruption-Free Union, which pumped the funds to Davis's direct-mail firm, which, in turn, pumped out a million pro-Carey fliers to coincide with election ballots...

...Since he abused and cheated on her throughout their relationship, and since she was about to take up with another man, Einhorn was suspected by her family and investigators of murdering Holly...

...Einhorn lived in a converted mill set against streams and flowered hillsides, where he grew strawberries and marijuana, and mentored a small band of French no-nukesters who called themselves, as only the French would dare, "Baba Cool" (Cool Daddies...

...As Philadelphia's uber-Hippie, the founder of Earth Day, and a counterculture Zelig, the pony-tailed, brillo-bearded Einhorn was known for his erudition, charis-ma—and body odor...

...Representing only progressive nonprofits and socially responsible companies—from environmental groups to the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League to the DNC—the Share Group cites its "clients' values" as the key to its success...

...But this June, Einhorn finally turned up in the most obvious place, a place where a Raskolnikovian American has-been of great pretense and suspect hygiene could make a go of it: France...

...In a scheme designed to move money illegally from the Teamsters' general fund into Ron Carey's reelection campaign against James Hoffa Jr., FBI investigators discovered, the Teamsters paid Ansara $97,175 to make nearly 150,000 get-out-the-vote calls for congressional Democrats last fall...

...It's been a tough haul ever since for those who suckled on New Left cant...

...Einhorn, by the way, did not kill Judy—though he did hit her over the head with a Coke bottle and attempt to strangle her, after which he wrote a poem about it...

...Author Steven Levy discovered some years ago after poring through Einhorn's journals that his murderous impulse wasn't an anomaly...

...An early espouser of environmentalism, non-violence, and other do-goodnik boilerplate, he began to outpace the movement by the '70s...

...Leftovers Gone Bad Sixties Radicals, Running Afoul of the Law By Matt Labash It seems so gloriously square now—all those raw, vital innocents with their flared-nostril manifestoes like the Port Huron Statement, modestly composed in an effort to change "the conditions of Matt Labash is a staff writer for The Weekly Standard...

...Einhorn still maintains his innocence and is fighting extradition on grounds that he couldn't attend his trial...

...Clean," when they weren't calling him "a goody-two-shoes in a rack of mud-splattered brogans...

...While the inducing is disputable, Bloom appears to have fulfilled his aldermanic duties on the "commission of a crime" end of things...

...His first love, however, was contemplating and cultivating himself—all else, he wrote, "has become ephemeral and illusory...

...The founder of Harvard's Students for a Democratic Society in the '60s, Ansara had subsequently (in his own words) "become less of a Marxist, but more angry...

...Or so it once seemed...

...To deflect culpability, Ansara's wife cited her "long history of involvement with social justice causes," saying she just wanted to assist Carey as he cleaned up the Teamsters' image...

...Martin Davis, a consultant for both Carey and the DNC who has now been charged with mail fraud, asked Ansara to "lose some of the calls," providing surplus profits Ansara funneled to his wife, Barbara Arnold...

...Among the highlights stemming from the government's undercover investigation called "Operation Silver Shovel," Bloom allegedly extorted bribes totaling $16,000, bilked taxpayers out of $288,000 in two separate fraud schemes, and frequently consorted with known criminal and formerly unknown government mole John Christopher, who was thoughtful enough to wear a wire during many of their conversations...

...Then there were the better-adjusted, who got down to the practical business of living, retaining their ideals as they burrowed into city governments, student ghettoes, and progressive business ventures...

...Representing his largely black ward, Bloom busied himself with higher-minded municipal pursuits, like trying to force a private company to adopt the city's affirmative-action laws...

...But as exemplified this summer by three former repositories of liberal-activist virtue who've run afoul of the law (and in one case run from it), this last asset of the insolvent is in mercilessly short supply...

...Staying out of prison was the only inducement Boston's Michael Ansara needed to turn cooperating witness this summer in a grand-jury probe of a money-funneling scheme that helped swing the Teamsters presidency for Ron Carey last year...

...Ansara's outfit provides—hold on to your lunches—"a new meaning for the business ethic: Telemarketing with a conscience," in the words of the Boston Globe...

...Though Ansara admitted he was "guilty of tremendous lapses of judgment that violate principles that have guided me in my life," he, too, just wanted to see the Teamsters scrubbed up under the progressive reformer Carey—no matter how much money he had to launder to do it...

...It seems he was "mugged" by the government, which attempted "to induce the commission of a crime...

...When he recently departed from the city council and returned to his law practice, Bloom boasted that he "traveled alone and without fear," facing off with sitting mayors, influential developers, and the taxicab monopoly...

...Clean," has had to return 10 percent of his campaign take because of illegal contributions...

...Others withered bootlessly in prison on drug charges, on the lam for murderous protests, or in a centrist Clinton administration...

...Released on $40,000 bail while awaiting trial (future senator Arlen Specter was one of his early attorneys), he did what any hippie guru framed by two intelligence agencies would do: He skipped town...

...Increasingly obsessed with the paranormal (he was a champion of Uri Geller), New Age stirrings, psychotronic weaponry, and management guru-ism (still in its embryonic stages), Einhorn built an impressive network of movers willing to heed, or more important, subsidize him...

...Nor did he Holly's—just caved it in...

...His recent arrest hasn't seen him lose heart, friends say...

...When another relationship was going south, Einhorn wrote: "There is a good chance that I will attempt to kill Judy tomor-row—the rational awareness of this fact brings stark terror into my heart but it must be faced if I wish to go on—I must not allow myself to deviate from the self-knowledge which is in the process of being uncovered...

...He remains optimistic, stubbornly clinging to the values that have sustained him: those of self-justification in the face of unjustifiably egregious behavior— perhaps the same "values" Michael Ansara's company's promotional literature assures us "aren't for show...

...That, they had in spades, they'd remind us, settling into lives of not-so-quiet declaration...

...He denied it, however, and continued to prosper, becoming a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, conducting a national Sun Day observance for which he was celebrated as a reincarnated Thoreau, and entertaining in his bohemian enclave—stitchless as a newborn, of course...

...Since "earning a living was an old form," he busied himself holding Be-Ins and Smoke-Ins and 20-hour reading bouts, composing bad poetry and unreadable screeds, taking surgical anesthetics for pleasure, entertaining houseguests in the raw (his raiment of choice as host), teaching courses like "Politics and Dada" at the University of Pennsylvania's Free University, and priming easily impressed, easily confused trollops with hot blasts of Nietzsche, Marshall McLuhan, and Marcuse...

...Clean that included mail fraud, extortion, money laundering, and tax violations...

...His wealthy Swedish wife blew his cover by applying for a driver's license, enabling authorities to arrest a still-naked Einhorn in Cham-pagne-Mouton, a bucolic paradise 240 miles south of Paris...

...Decrying Chicago's proud tradition of patronage, Bloom has criticized Daley over the years for using bond work to reward friends and keeping campaign workers on his payroll, and he prophesied that Daley's legalized-gambling proposal would lead to "payoffs and corruption...

...They may have lost their leaders and their ideological influence even in traditionally liberal, urban bulwarks, but they could find solace in their possession of the one thing others could never have as much of—unimpeachable intent...

...He was, after all, a fugitive...

...Chicago alderman Lawrence Bloom was a clean man—so clean, the papers called him "Mr...

...There was, unfortunately, the problem of the stench emanating from his residence, along with the brown goo seeping into the apartment beneath his...

...It isn't, however, your average greedhead endeavor...

...Nobody ever called Ira Einhorn "Mr...

...As such, he was the first '60s heir to the Lake-front Liberals—the bloc of independent Democrats who raged against Mayor Richard J. Daley's corrosive machine...

...Carey subsequently beat Hoffa by fewer than 17,000 votes, and his victory has now been overturned partly because of these revelations...

...Fortunately for Bloom, he is innocent—at least, that's how he's pleading...

...He always seemed to arrive two beats ahead of what would follow...

...Spotted over time in Dublin, Wales, and Stockholm, Einhorn always evaded officials either through extradition restrictions or from friendly tip-offs (Barbara Bronfman, ex-wife of liquor scion Charles, continued to fund him until 1988), even after a Philadelphia judge convicted him in absentia of murder and sentenced him to life in 1993...

...This arrangement nearly came to an end in 1977, however, when Einhorn's longtime girlfriend, Holly Maddux, disappeared after one of their myriad fights...

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...A truly free spirit, Einhorn was devoted only to Nietzschean elasticity, unshackling himself from slave-herd morality, which cleared him to be a world-class mooch, to deal drugs, and to bed coeds in his perpetual grad-student orbit at the clip of a hippie Wilt Chamberlain...

...Citizen Action's $75,000 kickback was carved out of the $475,000 the Teamsters ostensibly paid it for independent expenditures on behalf of Democrats (legally), though the funds were actually moving circuitously from the general union fund to the Carey kitty (illegally...

...Bloom followed suit, becoming the scourge of Daley's son and namesake, once the city's chief prosecutor and now its mayor...

...That, and the union kickbacks...

...And such is the virus infecting so many ideological hacks, but with a particularly virulent strain plaguing '60s Leftovers: Almost any violation of high ideals can be rationalized as long as it is an exercise in personal growth or a transgression in the service of even higher ideals...

...Bloom was first elected in 1979 to represent the 5th ward (the Hyde Park/University of Chicago area...