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October 18, 2006
Profiting from business prosecutions
So, now it's Debra Wong Yang, U.S. Attorney for California's central district, is resigning to take a job with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP where she will serve as co-chair of the firm's crisis management practice group. Sounds sort of like a legal SWAT unit, don't you think?
At any rate, Yang -- like Arthur Andersen-slayer Andrew Weissman before her -- is moving on to greener pastures after spearheading the indictment of the Milberg Weiss law firm. Larry Ribstein -- who just used Yang's pursuit of Milberg Weiss in his recent talk on arranging key witness testimony -- is wondrous about this development:
The WSJ reports that Debra Wong Yang, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, has parlayed her prosecution of Milberg into a plum partnership at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Bruce Kobayashi and I recently discussed Ms Yang's handiwork: the irony of an indictment alleging that Milberg bought witness cooperation supported by a government plea deal with a leading witness. Now Ms Yang will earn big bucks to defend clients against similar government tactics. Is this a great country or what?
Posted by Tom at October 18, 2006 04:28 AM
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The prosecutor helps the GOP raise big $$$ between May and November with her "creative" indictment of Milberg Weiss. Now she herself accepts big $$$ from a law firm connected with the GOP -- Ted Olson represented them in the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 election.
Help me...isn't there a legal term for this?
The timing is practically unbelievable...bailing as soon as Judge Walter tells her, "At some point in time, this investigation HAS GOT TO END!"
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at October 18, 2006 07:48 AM
Is the term "corruption" perhaps?
Prosecutors are supposed to be motivated by the public interest and the search for justice, which are already often in conflict. Poorly motivated prosecutors create a terrible threat, given their massive power, to the very public and justice they purport to serve. I don’t know what to do about this – prosecutors can and should be able to work anywhere they want – but there’s a big problem here.
Posted by: Nicholas at October 18, 2006 12:13 PM
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