John LeBoutillier
Tuesday July 24, 2001

Let us instead look at the case of a different, beautiful young woman, her murder, the lengths to which the murderer went to escape - and the pathetic way the Liberal Intelligentsia protected this killer:

It was 1978 and I was in my second year at Harvard Business School. I had signed up for a course taught by the famed - and liberal - Professor George Lodge, son of the late Henry Cabot Lodge. This course was a look at the inter-connections between government and business.

A fellow second year student, Rick Grogan, and I sat together in the back row of the amphitheater-type classroom.

One day late in the fall term Professor Lodge told us that the next day he was going to produce a "very valuable guest lecturer." He did not tell us who this "surprise" would be.

Sure enough, the next morning Grogan and I arrived and took our customary seats. We looked down toward the front of the classroom and there was Lodge amiably chatting with an odd-looking figure seated in a chair in the middle of the classroom.

The fellow had a long beard, and even longer ponytail, was wearing filthy army fatigue-like pants and a baggy jacket.

He sure did not look like anyone we had ever seen at Harvard Business School!

Professor Lodge convened the class and said, "I want you all to pay specific attention to our speaker today. He's very connected…very plugged in. He's going to talk to you about 'networking.'"

I can't remember much of the talk - other than it was one hour of pure, unadulterated BS!

The speaker rambled - lots of Ahs and Ughs - and no real purpose to the talk.

Grogan and I rolled our eyes a lot - and shook our heads over what a waste of time this had become.

When the lecture ended, we walked down to Professor Lodge. I can specifically remember saying to him, "Professor, this guy should not be here speaking ... he's useless!"

Lodge scolded me, "No, he's very, very connected. You two need to pay attention to a man like this."

At Harvard Business School you are so busy that you move on quickly. By the next day or so this 'lecture' was an old memory. Six weeks later it was almost forgotten - until I saw the front page of the New York Post. There was a picture of our "guest lecturer" - amid a huge story that he was suspected of first-degree murder!

Yes, he was Ira Einhorn. And while he had sat in front of us smugly having the gall to tell us how to act, his live-in girlfriend, Holly Maddux, was dead and rotting inside a steamer trunk in their Philadelphia apartment closet!

Neighbors reported that the stench was overwhelming - and finally the cops investigated.

Not long thereafter Einhorn - a 1960's lefty radical comrade of Dr. Tim Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and the rest of that rabble - was arrested and charged with first degree murder.

He subsequently jumped bail, fled to Ireland, England and finally France. For twenty years he evaded capture - with the help of many rich and powerful people.

Meanwhile, back here at home, the Maddux family - like the Levy family today in Chandra's Case - doggedly pursued justice. Holly's sisters did everything - and more - to bring their sister's killer to justice.

Einhorn eventually was tried in absentia, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

When he finally was found living comfortably in France with a new rich wife, extradition proceedings began. The French don't approve of the death penalty and made it a precondition of a possible return of Einhorn that he must get a new trial - and there could be no death penalty in this case.

The Pennsylvania legislature passed a special law just for this case.

So finally, late last week, Ira Einhorn - who claims the CIA killed his girlfriend and threw her into the trunk to set him up - was returned to a Pennsylvania state prison.

He may or may not choose to have a new trial.

Either way, however, the point has been made: for some reason the Big Left Establishment - Professor Lodge and much of the Harvard faculty included - bent over backward to favor, excuse and even praise a radical leftist like Ira Einhorn.

For liberals like these, they are happy to have a double standard in our justice system: one level for the "connected" and another level for the rest of us.

This is why the Chandra Levy Case is so riveting. Here is another family fighting against a seemingly reluctant police department in a case involving another powerful - and "connected" - man.

Let us all fight against this blatant hypocrisy.