Maybe, maybe not. I suspect these guys will be suing the hell out of the FAA and other government agencies, as well as the airlines. But if they really to intend to let the dogs out on the Saudi royal family and some of the other Arab co-conspirators, then bully for them.
-ccm
Maybe, maybe not. I suspect these guys will be suing the hell out of the FAA and other government agencies, as well as the airlines
I think that ccmay might be right and Motley Rice is either building a shopping list of organizations to sue or information for leverage.
Lawyers have been big source of Edwards' campaign funds - USAToday - 7/6/2004
[snip] The Ness, Motley law firm gave $250,600 to Edwards. The firm — now called Motley, Rice — was heavily involved in litigation against tobacco companies that led to a $246 billion settlement with the states. The firm also let Edwards use its business jet. [/snip]
Mary Schiavo @ Motley Rice LLC
Throughout her distinguished career in law and public service, Mary Schiavo has held corporations, institutions and the government fully accountable for their obligation to protect the safety and security of the traveling public. She continues that mission at Motley Rice LLC as a member and leader of the aviation team.
From 1990 to 1996, Schiavo served as the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Under her direction, Schiavo and her staff secured more than 1,000 criminal convictions and uncovered billions in waste and abuse at the U.S.D.O.T. Since leaving the Transportation Department, Schiavo has represented passenger and crew families in every major U.S. air crash, as well as pilots and passengers on private planes. At Motley Rice, she continues to represent clients in all major aviation-related litigation, including family members of the passengers and crew aboard the four planes hijacked on September 11, 2001.[/snip]
Ms. Schiavo is famous for several things including:
[snip] The Los Angeles Airport Commission hired Hubbell in late summer 1994 to help ensure the U.S. Department of Transportation did not stop the city from making use of $58 million in airport funds. It paid Hubbell $24,750. A year ago, amid questions about the arrangement, former DOT inspector general Mary Schiavo found that Hubbell did not solicit the job and appeared to have done little work. She found Hubbell's lobbying consisted largely of one or two five-minute phone calls to the DOT general counsel. Hubbell was recommended to airport officials by the husband of then-Deputy Mayor Mary Leslie, a Hubbell friend and one-time Clinton administration appointee at the Small Business Administration under Erskine B. Bowles. [/snip]
Hubbell Meetings With Riady Draw Probers' Scrutiny - Wash Post 3/23/1997