A troubled father-son relationship became a riveting subplot in the fraud trial of a lawyer accused of duping investors of millions of dollars in a bid to buy Maxim magazine. Calvin Darden Sr., a former top executive of UPS, took the stand last week in Manhattan federal court as a government witness in the case against Harvey Newkirk, the lawyer accused of concocting a scheme with the executive’s son, Calvin Darden Jr. At issue is the role the elder Darden played in the failed bid by Darden Jr., who had already spent time in jail for an earlier stock...
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