Alleged Iranian 'Front' Represented by Mukasey Law Firm (AG Nominee)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

For more than 25 years, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities say they have suspected the New York-based Alavi Foundation is a "front" for Iranian espionage and anti-American activities.

For more than 25 years, court records show the foundation has been publicly defended and represented by the New York law firm where attorney-general nominee Michael Mukasey is a partner: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP.

The foundation says the firm continues to represent it.

Mukasey personally handled at least one matter in court for the foundation.

That case, a real estate dispute, began in 1981 when reports first surfaced that the foundation, originally set up by the Shah, had been taken over by the new Ayatollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran.



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/alleged-iranian.html

[IsItJustMe]

1. Seeems like these folks only see green.

[BrklynLib at work]

2. And this should be a shock because.................

If BushCo likes 'em, you KNOW they are crooked.