l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon
Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need
look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government
Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a
client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny
Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.
There’s more.
Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy
retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very
law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.
And more.
As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in
the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s
bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh. At Holder’s Senate
confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and
revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,
” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our
bank. I chose Eric.”
Until now, the conventional wisdom for why Holder wouldn’t throw the book
at Corzine was that Corzine is an Obama campaign bundler. Indeed, as
Breitbart News reported, four of the top officials at the Department of
Justice--Eric Holder, Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West--were also
big money bundlers for Obama.
But the newly understood crony connections reveal conflicts of interest that
extend well beyond mere political support for a common candidate--they go
to a tangle of prior business dealings that further underscore the need for
a special prosecutor in the Corzine case.
At least 65 members of Congress have already signed a letter to Attorney
General Eric Holder requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to
investigate MF Global’s collapse and the loss of $1.6 billion in customer
money. What’s more, even progressives have begun to wonder whether Holder’
s Covington & Burling connection explains why the Department of Justice has
not charged, prosecuted, or jailed a single Wall Street executive after the
biggest financial collapse in American history.
As Richard Eskow of the Huffington Post recently wrote:
More and more Washington insiders are asking a question that was
considered off-limits in the nation's capital just a few months ago: Who,
exactly, is Attorney General Eric Holder representing? As scandal after
scandal erupts on Wall Street, involving everything from global lending
manipulation to cocaine and prostitution, more and more people are worrying
about Holder's seeming inaction -- or worse -- in the face of mounting
evidence.
This isn’t going away.
Both the left and the right are onto Holder’s Wall Street head fake. With
the revelation of the new crony connections, the time for Eric Holder to
appoint a special prosecutor in the Corzine/MF Global case is now. | P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 2 Why is it Holder's problem?
It's SEC's job first.
need
Lanny
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon
: Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need
: look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government
: Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a
: client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny
: Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.
: There’s more.
: Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy
: retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester--the very
: law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.
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