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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">illiam Steele Sessions</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(May 27, 1930&nbsp;– June 12, 2020) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">United States district judge</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Texas" title="United States District Court for the Western District of Texas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">United States District Court for the Western District of Texas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and Director of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Sessions served as FBI director from 1987 to 1993, when he was dismissed by President&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill Clinton</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. After leaving the public sector, Sessions represented&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Mogilevich" title="Semion Mogilevich" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Semion Mogilevich</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, international leader of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia" title="Russian mafia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Russian mafia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He was the father of Texas Congressman&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sessions" title="Pete Sessions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pete Sessions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dad fbi director&nbsp;</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FEDERAL LAW</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Few Lawyers, a Former FBI Director and a Lonely Ole Mother of Three Sons and a Daughter are About to Walk into a Texas Courtroom and Hear “The Court is Now in Session(s)”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>William Sessions sons are alleged to want him to divorce from his wife of 65 plus years, Alice Sessions – as Lewis Sessions hits financial woes. In the last couple of years, the Internal Revenue Service has hit Lewis with about $328,000 in tax liens for unpaid income taxes and penalties</b>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ByjusticefortexasPosted on<b> August 26, 2019</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FORMER FBI DIRECTOR’S SAN ANTONIO DIVORCE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The divorce petition bore just the estranged couple’s initials, W.S.S. and A.L.S.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Update: William Sessions died on June 12, 2020, at his home in San Antonio from complications of heart failure.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other than the pair’s wedding date and a partial Social Security number, nothing else in the three-page document gave any clues as to their identities. For 16 months, the case proceeded without attracting any attention.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">THEN, IN JUNE, THE PETITIONER’S COVER WAS BLOWN.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There, on the second page of a June 3 court document in the Bexar County district court case, was his name: William S. Sessions, the one-time San Antonio federal judge and former FBI director, whose tenure was marked by controversy. On his watch, the FBI engaged in the infamous Ruby Ridge shootout and was excoriated for its handling of the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sessions, now 89, had petitioned to divorce Alice Sessions, 88, and end their roughly 65½-year marriage on Feb. 20, 2018.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Washington, D.C., Alice Sessions was widely seen as the force guiding her husband’s public life, his strong-willed, ambitious partner.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The divorce petition didn’t offer a glimpse into the disharmony in their marriage.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities” that “prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation,” his boilerplate filing stated. The two ceased living together in March 2017.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Late-in-life divorces are rare — especially 15 years after a couple’s golden wedding anniversary. The reasons in this case remain a mystery. But one thing’s clear: <b>the Sessionses’ adult children, including former 11-term Congressman Pete Sessions, are at the heart of this case</b>.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice alleges that her husband is being manipulated by their three sons. The sons say they are only looking out for the father.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The messy affair highlights the challenges many adult children face in dealing with their parents when they enter their final years.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Attempts to speak with Sessions — who’s been battling various health problems — were unsuccessful. Reporters on two occasions visited the San Antonio assisted living and memory care facility where he now lives but were not permitted to see him.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A reporter on July 17 got as far as the door to Sessions’ room, across from a nursing station, where an aide turned him away and forbade him to return. Another reporter on July 23 was informed at the front desk that only direct family members could see Sessions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">THE DIVORCE CASE IS SET FOR TRIAL SEPT. 23.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At a July 30 court hearing, San Antonio lawyer William B. Ford, who represents William Sessions, said the parties were trying to resolve the case. But he worried that the trial would be postponed because Alice Sessions’ San Antonio attorneys were withdrawing from the case. She still lives in Washington. The hearing was on Sessions’ request for access to a joint account at Capital One Bank.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Deferring this case is harmful to these people,” Ford told Judge Karen Pozza. “These are elderly people who need to have this case concluded. And frankly, I think what they’re trying to do is throw up a four-corner defense and run the clock … and leave the money in D.C. and hope my guy passes away and they end up with control of that account, versus letting him have control of it in the interim.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The assets of the marital estate are valued at “several million dollars,” Ford said. He would not comment for this article. William Sessions receives a government pension and Social Security totaling about $9,700 a month, while Alice receives $940 in Social Security each month.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About a year ago, then-Judge Richard Price denied Alice’s challenge to the Bexar County court’s jurisdiction over the divorce case. She argued the couple’s last marital residence was in Washington, not Texas.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Reached by phone, Alice said she doesn’t want a divorce. The decision to file for divorce was not her husband’s idea because he suffers from dementia, she said, adding that he was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, which can cause dementia symptoms, when he lived in Washington.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alice accused their three sons — Lewis, 66, a Dallas lawyer; Pete, 64, an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 11 terms; and Mark, 61, a San Antonio lawyer — of orchestrating the divorce.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“All of them are in it together,” she said. “Our wills make very clear that when we’re gone that the boys and my daughter take whatever’s left. But some people are not willing to wait to take what’s left.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lewis chuckled at the suggestion that he, rather than his father, was behind the divorce.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“My mother is an 88-year-old woman who just has some issues with family that are personal, and I’d rather not comment on that,” Lewis said. His father does not have dementia, he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He added, “Do you have an aging parent? Wait until they experience health problems, other problems, and they don’t want to move from their house, or one parent isn’t able to take care of the other. It’s no fun.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He and his siblings are paying close attention to their father’s well-being, so his mother’s assertion makes no sense, Lewis said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“You would think if we really wanted an inheritance, and wanted it quickly, we would not take care of him,” Lewis said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">COMING TO SAN ANTONIO</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s an unceremonious and ugly end to the Sessionses’ union. They have known each other since they were students at Northeast High in Kansas City in the late 1940s, when he used to pass her notes in the halls.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William joined the Air Force in 1951 and became an instructor at James Connally Air Force Base in Waco. They were married there on Oct. 5, 1952.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He left the Air Force and graduated from Baylor Law School. Along the way, the couple had their three sons. A fourth son, born in 1962, died of a heart defect when he was 3 months old. Daughter Sara was born in 1970.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After a stint with the Justice Department in Washington, William was appointed U.S. attorney in San Antonio in 1971. Three years later, President Gerald Ford made him a U.S. District judge in El Paso.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sessions served six years there before becoming chief U.S. District judge in San Antonio, where he presided over the criminal trial of Charles V. Harrelson (father of actor Woody Harrelson),</b> charged in the slaying of U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wood was shot in the back outside his Alamo Heights townhome as he was leaving for work in 1979. It’s been called the “crime of the century.” Sessions served as a pallbearer and delivered a eulogy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Harrelson was convicted and Sessions sentenced him to two consecutive life terms plus five years. Harrelson died of a heart attack in 2007 in a Colorado prison. He was 69.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice, with a master’s degree in historical costuming, designed and made costumes for the San Antonio Ballet and other dance companies.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MR. SESSIONS GOES TO WASHINGTON</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed Sessions the FBI’s fourth director. Sessions was credited with advancements for women and minorities and pushing such techniques as DNA typing,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> journalist Ronald Kessler reported in his book “The FBI: Inside the World’s Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency.”</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sessions was at the helm during a tumultuous time. The FBI was castigated for its roles in the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992 in Idaho and the fire at the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 in Waco. The latter event, which killed 80 Davidians — including 25 children — led the New York Times to call for Sessions’ removal.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, Kessler exposed a series of abuses by Sessions, and the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility opened an investigation.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The office released a scathing 161-page report in January 1993 that revealed Sessions misused his director’s privileges. </b>His misdeeds included using an FBI plane for personal travel, misusing government funds for a privacy fence at his Washington home and f<b>ailing to cooperate in an investigation into a “sweetheart” mortgage that he obtained.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alice Sessions contributed to his downfall, according to investigators. She was given a gold security badge for access to FBI headquarters — even though she never had a required background check. The badge is supposed to be issued only to FBI officials holding the rank of assistant director or higher. She also was driven in FBI vehicles on personal errands.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">KESSLER DUBBED HER “CO-DIRECTOR OF THE FBI.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to a 1993 Washington Post article, FBI agents and Justice Department officials considered her “paranoid, vindictive, self-aggrandizing… And Bill was portrayed as the uxorious husband — unwilling and unable to act.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, in recommending to President Bill Clinton that he fire Sessions, said the FBI director had “exhibited a serious deficiency in judgment.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice passionately stood by her husband and accused a dozen high-ranking bureau officials of conspiring to gain control of the agency.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If President Clinton just wants his own man in there, that’s fine,” she said to the Express-News during a trip to San Antonio. “But give this man back his good name.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions was dismissed in July 1993, having served slightly more than half of his 10-year term. Afterward, he practiced law with two of his sons and largely remained out of the public eye. He retired at the end of 2016.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet Sessions’ name surfaced in the press just days before his divorce petition was filed in February 2018. The Austin American-Statesman chronicled a most unlikely friendship between Sessions and Johnny Spinelli, a career criminal whose jailhouse recordings of Harrelson led to the latter’s conviction in Wood’s assassination.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SESSIONS CONSIDERED SPINELLI PIVOTAL IN BRINGING WOOD’S KILLER TO JUSTICE.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The newspaper, noting Sessions’ residence in a San Antonio retirement facility, reported that he “still carries himself rigidly upright and speaks with the precision of a person whose career included both presiding over one of the nation’s busiest courtrooms — he required suit coats and banned chewing gum — and testifying in front of Congress.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DISGUISING THE DIVORCE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William Sessions’ use of his and his wife’s initials to disguise their divorce continues a common practice in Bexar County, particularly among high-profile individuals.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William Ford, William Sessions’ divorce lawyer, blamed a notary for inadvertently revealing his clients’ name in the divorce case. Ford asked the court to “remove and delete” the document.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The intention of all parties is to keep the names of the petitioner and the respondent anonymous,” Ford said in a July 1 motion. The court granted the request but Alice said she’s never wanted the case concealed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice refused to accept the divorce papers from a process server. He had tried to serve her after she pulled into her driveway in April 2018. She left the papers on the windshield of her vehicle.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She “proceeded to turn on her windshield wipers to push the documents from her vehicle,” process server Harvey Jessup said in an affidavit. She then opened her car door to say it wasn’t a valid service. Jessup photographed her during the interaction.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In her filing challenging the Bexar County court’s jurisdiction, Alice said its authority over her “would offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice” because she lives in Washington.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a response, William Sessions countered that his wife had been a resident of Texas for more than 35 years and had continued contacts with the state. He also said traveling to Washington for divorce proceedings would present “a substantial risk to his health.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The July 2018 court filing detailed Sessions’ long career in Texas but omitted reference to his time with the FBI. It said only that he and his wife lived in Washington “until 1993 when W.S.S. left government service.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Save for a few court orders last September, activity in the case ceased while the parties attended mediation and attempted to reach a settlement. Then, on May 20, William filed an amended petition for divorce.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two months later, Alice filed a counterpetition for divorce. She said it was not her decision to file the document, and she expressed unhappiness with her San Antonio counsel, the Tessmer Law Firm. On Monday, a judge granted the firm’s request to withdraw from the case. It was “no longer able to effectively communicate” with Alice, the firm said in a filing.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice also is represented by a Washington attorney, though he can’t practice in Texas. She said she has hired new local counsel but declined to share the name until the lawyer makes an appearance in the case.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The docket doesn’t indicate that either William or Alice has given depositions in advance of the trial, just four weeks away. While records show William’s lawyer has made a request for the production of various financial documents, it doesn’t appear that Alice’s counsel has made a similar request.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ford has sought to depose a few doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Alice said her husband was diagnosed with hydrocephalus. One of the doctors specializes in geriatric medicine, dementia and hydrocephalus. It’s possible Ford wanted their depositions to disprove Alice’s claim.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL LOAN</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In January 2012, it was reported that Sessions received a so-called “VIP” or “Friends of Angelo” loan in 2007 from troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, in which loans were granted at lower interest rates than were available to the public.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo created the program to boost the company’s standing with politicians, celebrities and well-connected business figures.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He received a $1 million loan from Countrywide at below-market rates, which he never declared in financial disclosures. His, as well as names of other legislators who received similar loans were subsequently referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as part of an ethics investigation into improper gifts.[53][54]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">TIES TO ALLEN STANFORD</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sessions came under scrutiny for his personal ties to disgraced banker Allen Stanford,[45] who in 2012 was convicted of orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.[46]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions received over $44,000 in political contributions from Stanford and his associates.[45] Sessions also took multiple trips to Fire Island and to the Caribbean to attend Stanford-sponsored events; these trips included private travel on Stanford’s fleet of jets and accommodations.[45][46]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2014, VICE News obtained records from Stanford’s internal files that indicated that in 2007 and 2008, before the scandal came to light, Sessions had intervened with the Treasury Department‘s Office of Foreign Assets Control, on Stanford’s behalf, allowing him to bypass certain Cuban embargo restrictions.[46]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Additionally, in 2004, Sessions (along with two other Republican congressmen, Bob Ney and John E. Sweeney) wrote to Venezuelan banking regulators, “vouching for Stanford’s character when Stanford was trying to obtain a charter to open a bank in the country, at a time when regulators there were reluctant because of reports they had received that Stanford was running a Ponzi scheme and engaged in money laundering.”[46]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PERSONAL LIFE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In February 1984,[60] Sessions married Juanita “Nete” Diaz.[61][62] They have two sons.[60]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2011, they divorced after 27 years of marriage.[61] In August 2012, Sessions married Karen Diebel, a 2010 congressional candidate in Florida[63] and a Trump Administration appointee to the Millennium Challenge Corporation.[64]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CASINOS</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In late 2001 and early 2002, he cosigned letters to two Cabinet members asking them to shut down casinos operated by several Native American tribes. Within 18 months of sending the letters, he received a total of $20,500 from tribes associated with Jack Abramoff</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In response to criticism, his office said that he wrote the letters because of his view that gambling is a local issue, falling under his long-held support for federalism.[17]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EARMARKS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2008, he added a $1.6 million earmark to an appropriations bill, for dirigible research. The earmark benefited a Chicago company, Jim G. Ferguson & Associates, which had no experience in government contracting or dirigible research. Former Sessions aide and convicted felon Adrian Plesha was a lobbyist for the firm.[18][19]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In September, Adrian Plesha sued Jim G. Ferguson & Associates for non-payment of fees and expenses connected with his lobbying effort on their behalf.[20]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ELDERLY DIVORCE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Divorces involving elderly couples who have been married for so long are unusual but not unheard of.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“When people get to this age, it’s either being driven by adult kids or one of the parties is having psychiatric problems and they choose to try to get a divorce,” said Chris A. Spofford, a Houston lawyer who specializes in elder divorce. But in the former circumstance, it’s usually children from a prior marriage or relationship who push for a divorce, he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice said her daughter Sara asked her father why he was seeking a divorce, and he mentioned his son Lewis.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“And he said, well, Lew thinks he needs to get his inheritance now,” </b>Alice said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the last couple of years, the Internal Revenue Service has hit Lewis with about $328,000 in tax liens for unpaid income taxes and penalties.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an email, Sara denied making the comment her mother attributed to her. She declined to comment further.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lewis, too, dismissed the suggestion: “Why would we be interested in trying to take money from him or get money from him? It makes no sense.” His back taxes, he said, had “nothing to do with my dad,” adding that he was taking care of the liens.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The couple’s sons discussed granting the Express-News an interview with their father, but it was never arranged.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“He is not infirm,” Pete Sessions said. “He is not being held against his will. He is not some 89-year-old who is sitting there and can’t make his own decisions. He’s doing great. He has some health issues. We have to take care of him, and that has not been popular with at least one person.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He added, “I think that what someone claims is not exactly correct. That person has sent a number of people down (to San Antonio) over the years and they’ve … had to go back to her and say, ‘Alice, that’s not the way it is.’ I don’t mean to demean my mother, but that’s the truth.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asked the reason for the divorce, Pete Sessions deferred to his brother Mark, who declined to comment for this article.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“There is an easy, simple, logical answer to every bit of this,” Peter said. “Let me say this: I would trust but verify.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">San Antonio lawyer Hubbard Parks, William Sessions’ friend of about 50 years, assumed power of attorney in March from Lewis. Parks pays the former FBI director’s bills but is not involved in the divorce proceedings.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This is a man with a sterling reputation,” Parks said. “He is not a scoundrel by any means. He would not do anything to harm his wife. He has repeated to me on several occasions without any coercion, and voluntarily, that he wants to treat his wife very fairly in the divorce.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Told Alice doesn’t want a divorce, Parks said William “wants to live the rest of his life in San Antonio and she wants to live the rest of her life in Washington, D.C.” Texas is a no-fault divorce state, Parks said, so either party in a marriage can end it regardless of what the other person wants.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Park described William Sessions as “sharp as a tack.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I would say he’s not incompetent,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">San Antonio attorney Art Nicholson, who clerked for Sessions from 1982 to 1984, and another former law clerk occasionally have lunch with Sessions. They last met with him in mid-July at the facility where Sessions lives.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nicholson described Sessions as “frail” but “very sharp-witted” and “competent.” He gets around using a walker, Nicholson added.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William likes to talk about his family, his grandchildren and what his sons are doing, but he’s never talked about Alice, Nicholson said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SESSIONS’ LEGACY</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alice painted a much different portrait of her life. She lives in the couple’s three-story house, assessed at more than $1 million.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She gets by on her Social Security check and doesn’t have access to bank accounts because of court orders in the divorce case, she said. She said she’s had to forgo visits to the hair salon and relies on assistance to pay utility bills.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Originally, she said she was told her husband was going to San Antonio for two weeks. She didn’t know until later that he wasn’t returning to Washington.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I could have divorced Bill when he was gone for six months under D.C. law,” she said. “I did not choose to do that because I did not want to do that.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’m his wife and have been for all these years and we’ve had a wonderful life together,” she added, her voice cracking.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alice’s neighbor, Jane Kuuskraa, who lives four doors away, finds the entire situation odd.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I just feel that this poor lady has been abandoned at this time of life,” Kuuskraa said. “This whole time, Mrs. Sessions has not gone public with all that’s been happening. She said they would like to protect Judge Sessions’ reputation as the former director of the FBI.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This is going to become public knowledge at some point,” she added. “And so that can’t be good for his legacy, or whatever it is.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FORMER FBI DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT BAYLOR LAW COMMENCEMENT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nov. 7, 2008</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">William Steele Sessions, former director of the FBI, will be the keynote speaker at commencement ceremonies for 16 graduates of Baylor Law School at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at Waco Hall. Additionally, Timothy Clark Williams, the highest ranking student in the graduating class, will deliver student remarks. Baylor Interim President David Garland also will participate in the program and will help award juris doctor degrees to the graduates.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions received his bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Baylor in 1956 and his law degree from Baylor Law School in 1958. From 1959 until the summer of 1969, he practiced law in Waco, where he was a partner in the law firm of Haley, Fulbright, Winniford, Sessions & Bice.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following 10 years of private practice with the firm, Sessions served as the Section Chief of the Government Operations Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, based in San Antonio and El Paso. For seven years, he served as Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions served as director of the FBI from 1987 to 1993. In 2000, he joined Holland & Knight LLP and serves as a partner engaged primarily in alternative dispute resolution procedures.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association; a certified panelist and advisory board member of the National Patent Board; and district panelist, national panelist of distinguished neutrals, and a member of the arbitration appeal panel for the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1959 and later was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He holds membership in the San Antonio Bar Association, the Federal and American Bar Associations, the William S. Sessions American Inn of Court, and the National Association of Former United States Attorneys.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions has received numerous honors and awards during his professional career. He was named Baylor Lawyer of the Year in 1988 and he also received the Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service Award and the Baylor Distinguished Alumni Award. He recently received the Constitution Project’s inaugural Constitutional Champion Award and Holland and Knight’s 2008 Chesterfield Smith Award.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions and his wife, Alice, who is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, are the parents of three sons and a daughter.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two of their sons, William Lewis Sessions and Mark Gregory Sessions, are both graduates of Baylor Law School and practice in Dallas and San Antonio, respectively. Another son, Peter Anderson Sessions, serves in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 32nd District of Texas.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Their daughter, Sara, is an actress in New York City.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They also have a grandson, Dallas Alford Sessions, who graduated from Baylor Law School in November 2007.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sessions has been selected to deliver the law school commencement address multiple times.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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