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To: Grampa Dave
EXCERPT: PROBE-FIRM LAWYERS FILL SPITZER'S COFFERS

By KENNETH LOVETT April 11, 2005

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from lawyers at a prominent Manhattan law firm hired by AIG — even as the insurance giant is under investigation by Spitzer's office.........Between late November and mid-January, Spitzer received $18,500 from 16 different attorneys from the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where the attorney general once worked as an associate....The Paul Weiss firm is representing AIG during a joint investigation by Spitzer, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the state Insurance Department into how AIG conducted business. Meanwhile, Spitzer told ABC's "This Week" yesterday that he believes that billionaire investor Warren Buffett, due to speak with regulators today, could "shed light" on transactions involving AIG's former chief executive.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/42561.htm

16 posted on 06/06/2005 1:41:07 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz; SierraWasp

Looks like Spitball may not be as clean as he wants to appear.


18 posted on 06/06/2005 2:02:22 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 5 decades.)
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