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Bernard Margolius, 96, retired lawyer and hotelier
Bernard Margolius, a Washington trial lawyer known for successfully defending police officers and who made a second career out of developing hotels along the Eastern Seaboard, died Aug. 1 in Maryland of congestive heart failure. He was 96.
Margolius spent the early 1940s as the District of Columbia's assistant U.S. attorney. In that post, he prosecuted a man who threatened to kill President...
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