Putting the boot in: Miers involved in dubious land deal

[EarlG]

Miers family received 'excessive' sum in land case

By JACK DOUGLAS JR. and STEPHEN HENDERSON
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.

The windfall came after a judge who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Miers' law firm appointed a close professional associate of Miers and an outspoken property-rights activist to the three-person panel that determined how much the state should pay.

The resulting six-figure payout to the Miers family in 2000 was despite the state’s objections to the "excessive” amount and to the process used to set the price. The panel recommended paying nearly $5 a square foot for land that was valued at less than 30 cents a square foot.

Mediation efforts in 2003 reduced the award from $106,915 to $80,915, but Miers, who controls the family’s interest in the land, hasn’t reimbursed the state for the $26,000 difference, even after Bush appointed her to the Supreme Court.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12973371.htm

[MaineDem]

1. Ahhhh...more of the culture of corruption.

Just another example.

I think she'll request her name be withdrawn shortly.

[central scrutinizer]

9. too bad she's childless

otherwise they could dig up some undocumented nanny on her payroll and let her withdraw "to spend more time with her family"

[Beaverhausen]

2. I liked your original title better!

and I agree...I don't think her nomination is going to last very long now.

[rkc3]

3. Didn't the Clinton investigations begin with the Whitewater land deal?

[YDogg]

4. That's what I'm thinkin'.

:smoke:

[rkc3]

5. Makes me wonder who's having sex with Harriet.

Where's Ken Starr when you need him?

[Ian_rd]

6. Whitewater! Aha! Oh ... nevermind (nt)

[Cults4Bush]

7. Ahhh Harry .... you whore.

Would you go poopies on Lil' boots whilst Gannon took care of the topping?

What exactly did you do for so many favors sweety? Better yet what were you going to do for all those favors?

[slay]

8. I'd like to say I'm surprised, shocked even

but I can't. I've gotten so used to Bush and his buddies being able to commit crime after crime and get away with it. It's all quite sad and depressing. :(