Nope, nothing happened to my leader. He wasn't arrested or killed. He came back from a job one day and everyone just up an left all at once, including those in his squad.
Good ideas for the professions, although I still don't quite understand what good it would do me to have a getaway driver with a low disguise skill, for example. I mean, doesn't EVERYONE in a squad have to have a good disguise skill? If your driver is really good at driving but bad at anything else, won't he give your group away? Conversely, what good does bringing an actor along do if he sucks at everything else? Man, i really need some spoilers.
I tried training disguise skill by simply sneaking around sites until the Conservative Swine was suspicious/alarmed, but it didn't seem to ever go up. How long does it take?
Also, about fashion designers... isn't it a lot easier to get clothes makers by freeing sweatshop workers? I know they have bad Juice, but is that important if they never leave the safe house?
Oh, and one more thing about recruiting... the only way I've found to easily recruit anyone besides a Hippie, Teenager, Prostitute, or the like is to date them an make them love slaves. Either that or date them and just kidnap them and try to convert them. I usually have a squad of prostitute on the street for this purpose. Or is the a better way to get, say, Programmers and Lawyers? They never seem to want to convert by reason alone.