with more than 70 attorneys led by scott rothstein. mike mayo was a columnist for the ft. lauderdale sun sentinel. he probably thinks, i m king of the world. reporter: and the firm is where melissa lewis, an earnest, by-the-book attorney, found great success for herself and her clients. she was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. no shrinking violet either. melissa loved those boozy, splashy office parties just as much as the other lawyers. she d found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and that s the thing about 38-year-old melissa lewis, even as she raised her voice and glass with the senior partners, her sad end wasn t far off. and her unexpected death would get caught up in a chain of events right out of a john grisham novel. murder, betrayal, and billions of dollars in fraud. melissa lewis at the start of everything awful that followed. it ended up being the beginning of the end. missy, as her family called her, had come so far. penthouse lawyerin
dennis murphy (voiceover): and the firm is where melissa lewis, earnest by-the-book attorney, found great success for herself and her clients. she was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. [rock music playing] no shrinking violet, either. melissa loved those boozy, splashy office parties just as much as the other lawyers. she d found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and that s the thing about 38-year-old melissa lewis. even as she raised her voice in class with the senior partners, her sad end wasn t far off. and her unexpected death would get caught up in a chain of events right out of a john grisham novel. murder, betrayal, and billions of dollars in fraud. melissa lewis, at the start of everything awful that followed. it ended up being the beginning of the end. dennis murphy (voiceover): missy, as her family called her, had come so far. penthouse lawyering wasn t likely for a restless high school dropout.
probably be delighted. i am paraphrasing faithfully. you said opponents of donald trump will say he was unhinged and sure enough, jake tapper, our colleague at cnn use that word to describe the performance. unhinged. maybe because i come from new york city and i grew up listening to donald trump more or less my whole life, i m not shocked or appalled by behavior like we saw today. i find it riveting as a performance. he s got this boozy, schmooze the rat pack delivery. kind of a comic delivery that works for him. the left, with each news conference, each event, it tries to up the ante and basically say to everyone that if you don t respond to donald trump in apocalyptic terms, you re going to be out of polite, civilized society. we live in the district and we feel it in our relationships. i didn t find anything in the
i thought justin bieber was past the partying stuff and wanted to clean up his image. i don t think you are ever past the partying. not if you are justin bieber or reena ninan. that s right. i seem like the boozy. that s right. especially when it comes to winter storms. like that transition. that was a nice transition. another winter storm hitting the northeast and another behind it. in parts of kentucky, the combination of a wintry mix of snow and rain hitting frozen ground triggered car crashes and shut down portions of 64 just outside of lexington. north of philadelphia, snow giving way to freezing rain, glazed roads with a layer of ice. abc s gloria riviera kicks off our coverage. reporter: this is how more than 5,000 people spent the weekend at the airport in dallas-ft. worth. those 1700 canceled flights at dfw alone over the weekend, all thanks to icy winter weather.
know, it s taboo. it s politically incorrect. you re not supposed to talk about these things. how do you balance it some people would say it s freedom of choice, it s the government saying you can t have marijuana, you know, versus i understand the heathenist aspect and the blunted motivation if you re getting high all the time, but what about the whole issue of your rights? well, those same people argue for freedom of choice when someone says, i want to buy a gun, i want to buy an oozy? let s be consistent with this thing, but more importantly, we should sit down and talk about ramifications. there are studies that show that, you know, marijuana is a gateway drug. we need to talk about how do we use it in such a way that it doesn t result in addiction of many, many people in our society? why can t we talk about these things? that s what i want to know. well, a lot of things we