Triangulating Law, Data & Ethics
Before he died, in 1960, Earl Long managed to serve three times as Governor of Louisiana and — despite widely acknowledged corruption — not a day in prison. In the context of today’s plague of litigation and over-zealous white collar prosecution, some might find helpful this advice of Governor Long: Don’t write anything you can […]
A June 26 NPR report confirms suspicions I first expressed on June 20 that the Bear Stearns indictments distort facts, casting them in the most unfavorable light possible. I’ve reached the point in reading indictments that I disbelieve 90 percent of what they contain. A disturbing percentage of prosecutors are either blantant liars (maybe trained […]
I have to disagree with WSJ Lawblogger Dan Slater’s takeaway from the Bear Stearns indictments. Dan wrote, late Friday afternoon: Yesterday, as we broke down the Bear Stearns fund-manager indictment, one thing stood out to us as clear, and poignant (presuming for the sake of this post that the allegations in the indictment are true): […]
