Posted on 08/22/2010 1:30:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has spun the 9/11 lawsuits into gold.
Ground Zero workers are on the hook to pay steep interest on money their lawyers borrowed from a group of investors that include Silver and his law partners, The Post has learned.
Silver's partners at the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm are top board members of a business that quietly loaned money at 18 percent a year to the law firm representing some 9,800 Ground Zero workers with toxic-illness suits against the city.
Silver personally invested an undisclosed sum -- but at least $50,000 -- in Counsel Financial Services, a Buffalo-based attorney-funding company that gives four-year loans and lines of credit up to $10 million to law firms with cases expected to hit the jackpot.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Blame the osteopaths ping.
Or maybe that’s the Ostrogoths.
Some kind of plunderers.
Disgusting.
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