I remember pulling up to my office in 1993 in my chauffeured Rolls Royce.  Two FBI ladies came over to me and asked, "Are you David Lawrence?" "Yes." "Then you're under arrest." "I'm already under arrest in Delaware," I said.  "I'm not supposed to be arrested in New York.  I made a deal in Wilmington that I'd go to jail if you stayed away from my business." It was a small tax evasion case, about a million dollars divided three ways.  I told the Wilmington DA that I would go to jail for two years if they didn't close down Allied Programs Corp. in New York. When the two butch FBI agents took me upstairs to my office, there were twenty feds piling all my files into crates.  They  were friendly enough.  I took it all as a big joke. But later in the day, word got out on the street that Allied Programs Corp. was raided by the FBI.  Actually, I had been negotiating...(Read Full Post)