SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-05 02:15 PM
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Miers was an integral part of the "Guard cover-up"
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 02:54 PM by SoCalDem
Maybe this is her "reward" or payment
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22harriet+miers%2... From "BARNES APOLOGIZES FOR HELPING GET BUSH INTO NATIONAL GUARD ...
In a statement issued after the deposition, Barnes' lawyer said Houston businessman
Sidney ... Dallas lawyer Harriet Miers was the commission's chairman. ...
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WAPO 23M/GTECH/BARNES 1999
... a direct hit recently when a federal judge ruled that Texas Lottery Commission
Chairwoman Harriet Miers did not have to give a deposition in the case. ...
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commission chair Harriet Miers (who was also Bush's personal lawyer and once was
paid ... Barnes told his story in a five-hour deposition and then told the ...
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... faulting John Roberts for never having argued to a jury or taken a deposition.
... "Harriet Miers is a trusted adviser, on whom I have long relied for ...
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Legal showdown looms over Barnes’ deposition
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... s lawyers lost an effort Wednesday to question Lottery Commission chairwoman Harriet
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... Texas Governorship by Harriet Miers, who has replaced Gonzales as White House
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Center for Professional Responsibility - American Bar Association
19 state to take a deposition, which is one of the examples ... 23 were on page
5 of 6 of the Harriet Miers November 1st ...
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Center for Professional Responsibility - American Bar Association
... comes to New York to take a deposition, interview a witness, ... Harriet Miers,
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last month, in a deposition sought by Littwin's lawyers, ... lottery Commission
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snippet..she was paid to "review" his records SoCalDem Oct-03-05 02:18 PM #1
her law firm paid $30 MILLION in fines..includes a Wylie brother SoCalDem Oct-03-05 02:23 PM #3
And didn't Roberts help Bush on the 2000 recount vote case? gatorboy Oct-03-05 02:21 PM #2
and the Trashing of the White House "investigation" SoCalDem Oct-03-05 02:29 PM #4
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-05 02:18 PM
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1. snippet..she was paid to "review" his records
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 02:19 PM by SoCalDem
From: "Man from Mars!"
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Subject: Aww, Georgie, Why'd Ya Lie to US?
"Q: Did the President ever have to take time off from Guard duty to do
community service?
Scott McClellan: To do community service? I haven't looked into everything
he did 30 years ago, Helen. Obviously, there is different community service
he has performed in the past, including going back to that time period --
Q: Can you find out if he actually had --
Scott McClellan: Helen, I don't think we remember every single activity he
was involved in 30 years ago.
Q: No, this isn't an activity. Was he forced to do community service at
any time while he was on --
Scott McClellan: What's your interest in that question? I'm sorry, I
just --
Q: Lots of rumors. I'm just trying to clear up something.
Scott McClellan: Rumors about what?
Q: Pardon?
Scott McClellan: Rumors about what?
Q: About the President having to do community service while he was in the
National Guard, take time out for that.
Scott McClellan: I'm not aware of those rumors. But if you want to --
Q: Could you look it up? Would you mind asking him?
Scott McClellan: That's why I'm asking what's your interest in that? I
just don't understand your interest in that.
Q: It's what everybody is interested in, whether we're getting the true
story on his Guard duty.
Scott McClellan: Well, you have the documents that show the facts.
Q: I'm asking you to try to find out from the President of the United
States.
Scott McClellan: Like I said, it's well known the different jobs he had
and what he was doing previously, that we know. That goes back to --
Q: I didn't say 'previously.' I said, while he was on Guard duty.
Scott McClellan: But you're asking me about 30 years ago. I don't think
there's a recollection of everything he was doing 30 years ago.
Q: Well, he would know if he had to take time out. . . ."
. . . and so on, for fifteen minutes.
If Scott McClellan doesn't know whether or not Bush performed community
service while he was in the National Guard, he can look up this reference on
the official State Department site:
http://usembassy.state.gov/seoul/wwwhe906.html .
"During this period, George W. worked for a former partner of his father's,
who had left the oil-drilling business to start an agricultural company in
Houston that had interests in a wide variety of things, from cattle and
chickens to tropical plants. George's job was to travel around the United
States and to countries in Central America looking for plant nurseries his
company might want to acquire.
"In the spring of 1972, he left this job and went to Alabama to work on the
unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Winton Blount. Returning to
Houston, he became a counselor for African-American youngsters in a program
called PULL (Professional United Leadership League). The program brought
together volunteers from the athletic, entertainment, and business worlds to
work with young people in a variety of ways. George taught basketball and
wrestling and organized field trips to juvenile prisons, so his young
charges could see that side of life and resolve not to end up there
themselves.
"'He was a super, super guy' says Ernie Ladd, a professional football player
who also worked with the program. 'Everybody loved him so much. He had a way
with people....They didn't want him to leave.'
"His work with Project PULL, Bush says in A Charge to Keep, gave him 'a
glimpse of a world I had never seen. It was tragic, heartbreaking, and
uplifting, all at the same time. I saw a lot of poverty. I also saw bad
choices: drugs, alcohol abuse, men who had fathered children and walked
away, leaving single mothers struggling to raise children on their own. I
saw children who could not read and were way behind in school. I also saw
good and decent people working to try to help lift these kids out of their
terrible circumstances.'" Three sources told biographer J. H. Hatfield
that Bush was performing community service on the orders of a judge. A Yale
classmate said, "George W. was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1972,
but due to his father's connections, the entire record was expunged by a
state judge whom the older Bush helped get elected. It was one of those
'behind closed doors in the judges' chambers' kind of thing between the old
man and one of his Texas cronies who owed him a favor ... There's only a
handful of us that know the truth."
If the record of an arrest was expunged, Bush apparently received the
equivalent of Youthful Offender status at the age of 26. Another Bush
associate told Hatfield, "I can't and won't give you any new names, but I
can confirm that W's Dallas attorney remains the repository of any evidence
of the expunged record. From what I've been told, the attorney is the one
who advised him to get a new drivers license in 1995 when a survey of his
public records uncovered a stale, but nevertheless incriminating trail for
an overly eager reporter to follow."
Records prove that Bush did get a new drivers license at that time.
Newsweek (July 9, 2000) reported that the Bush campaign "launched a
secretive research operation designed to scour all records relating to his
Vietnam-era service" while preparing for Bush's 1998 re-election campaign.
They paid Dallas lawyer Harriet Miers $19,000 to review the records.
In 1998, retired National Guard officer Bill Burkett said that in the
spring of 1997, Bush's chief of staff James Allbaugh asked Major General
Daniel James to assemble Bush's Guard records so that Bush aides could
review them. Days later, Burkett says he saw about twenty pages from Bush's
military files in a trash can.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/14/burkett/in... "'His records have clearly been cleaned up,'" says author James Moore,
whose upcoming book, 'Bush's War for Re-election,' will examine the issue of
Bush's military service in great detail. Moore says as far back as 1994,
when Bush first ran for governor of Texas, his political aides 'began
contacting commanders and roommates and people who would spin and cover up
his Guard record. And when my book comes out, people will be on the record
testifying to that fact: witnesses who helped clean up Bush's military
file.'" Salon, 04/ 02/14.
Before Bush's run for the governorship of Texas and the presidency of
the United States, journalists were put off by the missing records in Bush's
military files, but as researchers uncovered more records, a clearer picture
of Bush's military service emerged.
On January 19, 1968, Bush completed the Air Force officer
qualifications test in New Haven while he attended Yale University. Although
he scored 25%, the lowest possible passing grade, and had a record of
arrests (2 misdemeanors, 2 collisions, 2 drunk driving citations), on the
same day he applied he was accepted into the "Champagne Unit," where the
sons of the politically well-connected trained. He jumped to the head of the
line of 160 Texas applicants for two available pilot training slots, neatly
avoiding a year and half on the waiting list. Lucky for him, because his
draft deferment would have expired in twelve days. Former Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes later admitted recommending George W. Bush for a slot in the Texas
Air National Guard at the request of a Bush family friend.
MORE::::::>
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-05 02:23 PM
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3. her law firm paid $30 MILLION in fines..includes a Wylie brother
Edited on Mon Oct-03-05 02:46 PM by SoCalDem
Dreade Locke
What happens when a top law firm gets two crooks for clients? At Locke, Liddell, and Sapp, the result was a $30 million settlement for angry investors.
by John Spong
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:RrgDtlHqIJsJ:web.tex... LOCKE PURNELL ATTORNEY JANE MATHESON'S NOTE ON THE BACK OF A TRADE AGREEMENT her firm was editing for client Russell Erxleben in February 1998 got right to the point: "Tell the truth." Erxleben, an All-American punter and place kicker for the University of Texas Longhorns in the seventies, had enlisted the 110-year-old, blue-chip Dallas law firm to keep his company, Austin Forex Investments (AFI), from running afoul of state and federal securities regulations. AFI made its money through short-term investments in the volatile foreign-currency market, and it had a fiduciary duty to be open and honest with its investors. If, for example, AFI was telling clients that the company was doubling their money when it was really millions in the hole, then it was committing securities fraud.
This hypothetical example turned out to be the case. Seven months after Matheson scribbled her note, AFI closed its doors. A year later another client of the firm, Brian Russell Stearns, was arrested and charged with securities fraud after bilking investors out of more than $30 million, including $4.5 million from clients in his wife's hometown of Brady. Both Erxleben and Stearns turned out to have been running Ponzi schemes, using money from new investors to pay old ones. Before the two businesses collapsed, Locke Purnell's lawyers wrote letters on behalf of their clients, edited solicitations of investors, and negotiated deals, lending the firm's expertise and, by extension, its good name. By all accounts, their clients were no less willing to lie to the firm than to anyone else. But when the businesses failed, desperate investors with no chance to recoup their money from Erxleben or Stearns looked through the maze of transactions for a party with deep enough pockets to make them close to whole. They found Locke Purnell, which by that time had merged with Houston's Liddell Sapp to form Locke, Liddell, and Sapp, the state's sixth-largest legal shop. In April 2000 the firm agreed to pay defrauded AFI customers $22 million. Not even a year and a half later, a Travis County district judge okayed an $8.5 million settlement by Locke Liddell for Brian Stearns' investors.
Although most of the $30 million tab will be picked up by the firm's malpractice insurance, the size of the claims, that nasty word "fraud," and Locke Liddell's surrender without going to trial—as well as a $26 million suit brought by other Stearns' investors that the firm is still fighting in New York City—sent shock waves through the Texas legal community. The firm brought in $175 million in gross revenue last year and employs some 435 attorneys spread out in offices in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and New Orleans. One of its co-managing partners at the time, Harriet Miers, a former president of the State Bar of Texas and onetime lawyer for George W. Bush, is on the White House staff. So how is it that the sins of the clients came to be visited upon the firm?
The clients were indeed world-class con artists, with an abundance of charm and an absence of conscience that enabled them to talk folks into turning over their entire life's savings. Both men hid previous legal trouble from investors, lied about the growth of their funds, failed to disclose losses, and pooled their clients' money (something only registered securities dealers can do) instead of segregating it in individual accounts—all significant violations of securities regulations. Locke Liddell attorneys worked on many of those transactions, representing Erxleben from April 1997 until AFI closed its doors and Stearns from August 1998 until he was arrested. According to John McElhaney, a senior shareholder and a member of the firm's risk-management team, Locke Liddell was duped much like the investors: "One of these cases involved a client who was not following our advice, and the other involved a client who was misrepresenting the facts entirely, so we weren't able to give adequate advice because we were being fooled as to what he was doing."
The problem with that explanation is that judging from Locke Liddell's own documents—attorneys' notes and memos, billing sheets, and correspondence, all of which were inherited by the court-appointed receiver who took over the two enterprises—the firm would be hard-pressed to convince a jury that it had been duped. The paper trail, pieced together by plaintiffs lawyers Mike Shaunessy and Jim George (George represents this magazine), could be evidence that Locke Liddell either knew or should have known that someone was being had. The attorney who worked the Stearns file for Locke Liddell was Phillip Wylie, a corporate lawyer who, despite 26 years of practice, the last 6 of them with Locke Liddell, was "of counsel" to the firm, not a shareholder. He took over Stearns's file when another attorney had concerns about inconsistencies in Stearns' stories. For instance, Stearns initially told the firm he was worth $547 million, but a rare client-background check turned up just a small house in Austin and a couple of secondhand cars, barely $150,000 in assets. Undeterred, Wylie took over the file.
He responded to a State Securities Board inquiry by writing that Stearns was not selling securities in Texas, even though Stearns's earliest statements to the firm indicated that he was. In a letter to a man who was mulling over an $8 million loan to Stearns, Wylie wrote under the firm's letterhead that Stearns "honors all the commitments that he makes and he pays his bills when they are due." Yet Wylie had previously written two letters to Stearns demanding that he pay the firm's bill that was overdue. He had also helped Stearns clear up $60,000 in hot checks and had failed to check out a report from another client of the firm that Stearns had been convicted of felony fraud in Maryland. When Wylie was deposed, he contended that Stearns had good explanations for those irregularities and plenty of others, and maybe Stearns did have him convinced: The firm sent Stearns a bill two months after he was arrested.
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-05 02:21 PM
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2. And didn't Roberts help Bush on the 2000 recount vote case?
Friends of Bush, indeed!
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-05 02:29 PM
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4. and the Trashing of the White House "investigation"
from The Drudge Report, 2001-Jan-24, by Matt Drudge:
WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN BOMBS, LEWD MESSAGES; LEGAL PROBE CONSIDERED
**Exclusive Details**
The Bush Administration has quietly launched an investigation into apparent acts of vandalism and destruction of federal property -- after incoming Bush staffers discover widespread sabotage of White House office equipment and lewd messages left behind by previous tenants!
Harriet Miers, 55, Assistant to President Bush and staff secretary will be investigating possible legal ramifications of the White House trashing and possible theft, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
"Miers is just beginning her investigation," a well-place source said late Wednesday from Washington. "The level of the trashing is very troubling, this is not just 'W' keys missing from keyboards."
The damage left by departing Clintonites goes "way beyond pranks, to vandalism", said a close Bush adviser.
White House employees aren't waiting to be interviewed by Miers. They are providing names of the worst malefactors, previous occupants of specific offices.
Photographic and audio evidence is being collected -- as the full scope of the damage becomes clear.
Bush's staff has been cautioned not to go public with the extent of the damage and the worst is being closely held among very top staffers for fear of leaks. But, according to sources, so far Bush officials have found:
* Phone lines were cut, rendering them inoperable.
* Voice mail messages were changed to obscene, scatological greetings. One Bush staffer had his grandmother call from the Midwest. She was horrified by what she heard on the other end of the line.
* Many phone lines misdirected to other government offices.
* Desks found turned completely upside down and trash deliberately left everywhere.
* Computer printers that were filled with blank paper but interspersed with pornographic pictures and obscene slogans that would be revealed only as items were run off the computer.
* 'W' keys weren't just pried off more than 40 keyboards, some were glued on with Superglue; some were turned upside down and glued on.
* Filing cabinets glued shut.
* VP Office space in the Old Executive Office Building found in complete shambles. Mrs. Gore had to phone Mrs. Cheney to apologize, first reported by Rich Galen's Mullings.
* Lewd MagicMarker graffiti found on one office hallway.
Separately, the WASHINGTON TIMES reported that Air Force One was "stripped bare" during the former president's "official" farewell flight to New York on Inaugural Day.
All the plane's porcelain china, silverware, salt and pepper shakers, blankets and pillow cases - most of it bearing the presidential seal -- were taken by Clinton staff, a military steward told the paper.
Developing...
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