This is right out of Atlas Shrugged - just a few generations later.
Perry Weitz, founder and president of Weitz and Luxemberg, the high profile law firm that paid Democrat Silver millions for virtually no work gave Silver his walking papers.
“We were shocked to learn of impropriety in the referral of cases to our law firm,” said Weitz. Silver pocketed more than $3.2 million in referral fees on top of his $120,000 annual base law firm pay.
Weitz said: "..... we were never told that he was going to allocate, or had allocated, state funding (tax dollars) in exchange for client referrals.” Silver's scheme delivered $500,000 state grants (tax dollars) to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, ostensibly for research, in exchange for referring patients to W/L.....
The criminal complaint noted that W/L — on the advice of Silver — initially sought to block a subpoena from Gov. Andrew's Cuomo’s Moreland Commission when the panel asked W/L about its financial dealings with Silver. (NY POST REPORT--excerpt)