Is Ms. Miers Just Another Corrupt Republican? (a NEW skeleton!) [View All]

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From the bloggers at Burnt Orange Report:

After doing some homework, I found this Houston Chronicle article. The summary is below and the full article is after the jump.

In the late 1990s two guys, a former pro football player named Russell Erxleben and Brian Stearns, ran a $40 million + ponzi (pyramid) scheme involving hundreds of people, bilking them out of tens of thousands of dollars a piece. The secret to the sheer magnitude of their scheme is that rather than keeping their money in a bank, they kept it in Locke, Liddell and Sapp's trust fund. They then convinced potential "investors" that the money was safe because it was locked up in this big law firm's trust fund. To close the deal, they told them that one Harriet Miers was a partner there and that she worked for the governor. Locke Liddell knew what was going on, kept quiet about it and ended up getting sued and having to settle for more than $30 million in the affair. At the time Miers was a managing partner, meaning she was on watch when this scandal went down.

Either Ms. Miers was in on the deal or she is highly incompetent. Given the Republicans knack for all things shady, I have to believe
that Ms. Miers was in on the deal. Is this party corrupt to the core?

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full article at:
http://www.burntorangereport.com/mt/archives/2005/10/is_ms_miers_jus.html#more

I KNEW that there was more out there. I still think there's stuff in her Dallas City Council days....