A Manhattan lawyer who counseled Albany lawmakers and counted some prominent American writers among his private clients. Over the years, Mr. Amgott represented popular authors like Robert Ludlum and Donald E. Westlake and science fiction writers like James Blish and Theodore Sturgeon. Active in the New York State Liberal Party, he briefly served as an assistant state attorney general -- or ''attorney colonel,'' as he put it -- in 1994 and 1995. For 20 years before that, he commuted to Albany as a paid consultant to help Assembly committee members draft bills on eminent domain, bottle deposits, the rights of mental patients and the protection of utility customers after deregulation. In World War II he served in the Army's Psychological Warfare Division, preparing intelligence reports and debriefing German prisoners.
A Manhattan lawyer who counseled Albany lawmakers and counted some prominent American writers among his private clients. Over the years, Mr. Amgott represented popular authors like Robert Ludlum and Donald E. Westlake and science fiction writers like James Blish and Theodore Sturgeon. Active in the New York State Liberal Party, he briefly served as an assistant state attorney general -- or ''attorney colonel,'' as he put it -- in 1994 and 1995. For 20 years before that, he commuted to Albany as a paid consultant to help Assembly committee members draft bills on eminent domain, bottle deposits, the rights of mental patients and the protection of utility customers after deregulation. In World War II he served in the Army's Psychological Warfare Division, preparing intelligence reports and debriefing German prisoners.
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