This should be explored during the confirmation hearings.

[madmax]

Bush brought up the fact that she was a 'managing partner' in his morning news conference (cough).


"Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors (19 comments )
In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn't a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That's right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."

The details of the case are both nauseating and highly troubling, considering President Bush is considering putting Miers at the top of America's legal system. Under Miers' leadership, the firm represented

the head of a "foreign currency trading company was allegedly a Ponzi scheme." The law-firm admitted that it "knew in March 1998 that $ 8 million in losses hadn't been reported to investors" but didn't tell regulators.

This wasn't an isolated incident, either. The Austin American-Statesman reported in 2001 that Miers' lawfirm was forced to pay another $8 million for a similar scheme to defraud investors. The suit, which dealt with actions the firm took under Miers in the late 1990s, was again quite troubling. As the 9/20/00 Texas Lawyer reported, Miers' firm helped a now-convicted con man "defraud investors and allowed the firm's account to be used as a 'conduit.'" The suit said "money from investors that went into the firm's trust account was deposited into bank accounts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/miers-led-law-firm-repeat_b_8277.html

[tompayne1]

1. SHE IS INNOCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!

She deserves to have the law bent so far out of shape it cannot be recognized for the purpose of allowing her to be confirmed.

[speedoo]

2. In other words, she did the same thing Anderson did.

And, if I recall correctly, Anderson was convicted of crimes in that regard, were they not?

[whatever4]

3. AND this should to

MIERS is bad, okay?

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/
October 04, 2005
MIERS AGAINST MAKING GAY SEX LEGAL, AND AGAINST LEGAL ABORTION, IN 1989

From a dispatch from the Associated Press that moved late yesterday afternoon but that only a handful of major dailies have bothered to run, we learned that Harriet Miers (left)-- the corporate pitbull lawyer and presidential lapdog Bush appointed to fill Sandra Day O'connor's seat on the Supreme Court -- opposed repeal of Texas' so-called sodomy law in 1989, when she sought and won a seat on the Dallas City Council.

Says the AP, "Miers opposed repeal of the Texas sodomy statute -- a law overturned in 2003 by the court on which she will sit if confirmed -- in a survey she filled out for a gay rights group during her successful 1989 campaign." The survey was conducted by the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas -- to whom Miers said she didn't want and wouldn't seek their endorsement.

This revelation means that Miers was against the single most significant Supreme Court decision affecting gay people ever to come before the Court. And it also makes a vote for Miers' confirmation by any Democratic Senator utterly inexcusable.

[elehhhhna]

4. You can force a ham sandwich to pay fraud amages, you know.