RW website attacks Miers as corrupt

[quaoar]

The most significant thing about this story is not what it says about Miers or her law firm. It's the site where the story is posted -- WorldNetDaily, which is about as Freeper as they come.

The Freepers are not only unhappy with Miers, they are out to trash her reputation.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46684

Miers' firm fined big for cheating investors

Texas law group forced to pay $30 million for vouching for clients in Ponzi scheme

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – While Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers presided over a major Texas law firm, it was forced to pay more than $30 million to settle claims it vouched for the reputation of two clients who cheated investors out of millions in an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

While there is no evidence Miers knew about the actions of partners who represented the clients until investors began filing lawsuits against Locke Liddell & Sapp LLC, she publicly defended the firm's actions saying it never should have been named as a co-defendant in the case.

The law firm represented some of the state's biggest corporations and most famous residents, including George W. Bush before and after he was elected governor in 1994.

The lawsuits were sparked by work done by partners at Locke Purnell Rain Harrell, one of Dallas' largest law firms when Miers ran it during the late 1990s. By 1998, the law firm, then called Locke Liddell, found itself on the receiving end of lawsuits over two of its clients, Brian Russell Stearns and Russell Erxleben, a star football player at the University of Texas in the 1970s who played 10 years in the NFL as a placekicker.

[babylonsister]

1. How extremely odd would it be if Miers is

shot down by repugs instead of Dems? Up is down, left is right...:crazy:

[bleever]

2. Makes sense to me!

Suddenly they get all concerned about nuts-and-bolts ethics issues, and whether or not they shouldn't apply Whitewater standards to Miers.


:rofl:

[seabeyond]

3. personally i want to know why lotto money isnt making it to education

if this because part of the muddy water with them, a ok with me. i have been pissed for years, lotto money suppose to go to education and none has made it