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- <text id=89TT3085>
- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Fashion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- FASHION
- Sorry for the Inconvenience
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Justice Department last week dropped its investigation
- of Jordache Enterprises, the giant jeansmaker, thus wrapping up
- one of the rag trade's most sordid sagas. It began in 1986 when
- 50 IRS agents stormed Jordache's New York City headquarters,
- confiscating 1 million documents and virtually paralyzing the
- company's operations. Jordache officials suspected that their
- archenemies at Guess, Inc. were somehow involved. Sure enough,
- the raid and subsequent grand jury criminal case against
- Jordache was the result of information supplied by Guess to
- Ronald Saranow, a top IRS official.
- </p>
- <p> A House subcommittee concluded last summer that Guess used
- improper influence, including a job offer, to persuade Saranow
- to go after Jordache. In addition, the IRS agent who spearheaded
- the raid is now the target of two federal investigations.
- </p>
- <p> That is small consolation to Jordache, which spent more
- than $2 million on its legal defense. Said Chairman Joe Nakash:
- "Nothing can erase four years of humiliation and embarrassment
- caused by the greed and viciousness of others."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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