[lbo-talk] HealthSouth

[andie nachgeborenen]

Yes. (Though that was the Justice Dept Dept and not
the US Atty.)  The US Atty's Office is very very good.
It is incorruptible. For the most part it is pretty
nonideological. It is not perfect. It only wins 98% of
the time. Justice is a lot more political, but I
cannot imagine a Justice Department attormry
supervisor deliberately blowing an important case. 
The choice of targets might be political influenced.
Once they have you locked in to their sights, they'll
go all out. That doesn't mean they don't screw up like
everyone else now and then. Don't believe me, I know
you think these I'm naive and these guys are all
capitalist tools who hop when Unocal says so. But I
know them. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, they
like better than nailing a corporate criminal or
putting a rich fraudster in the slam. Here's a
terrible confession: if I could get a job as an
antitrust prosecutor or in the public corruption
division of the US Atty's Office, I'd try for it. Of
course I'd never in a million years pass the security
clearance, so the point is moot. jks

--- Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
wrote:


> 
> What about the attornies who blew the tobacco case. 
> Are they so
> dedicated?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 07:49:45PM -0700, andie
> nachgeborenen wrote:
> > Not bloody likely on either count. The US
> Attorney's
> > Office is staffed with top-flight lawyers, Supreme
> > Court clerks, emigres from the big law firms. And
> they
> > fight to kill, they don't prosecute unless they
> think
> 
> -- 
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
> 
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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