Notice the co-author - Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D.
Posted on 10/06/2005 10:22:32 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Joe Farah is an idiot, and because he runs WorldNetDaily I never read the rag.
So you are saying that the law firm she was a MANAGING PARTNER of did not pay a $22 million settlement to resolve charges that they aided fraud? I thought this was established fact - if you have information to the contrary you should share it with everyone.
All snarkiness aside, this is a US Supreme Court appointment - how is she going to look when a Senator asks her how this sort of thing happened on her watch without her having a clue, or worse, with knowledge of it happening?
This is a problem.
My guess is that the defendant was broke.
This is about as credible as Chairman Hao's recent "salami" insinuation.
I can't imagine that those who authorized these memos didn't know that to offer such an opinion is to assume liability for the truth of the opinion. One would think that a large law firm with a lot to lose would have emplaced systems to catch such things with a review process involving a signature from a managing officer.
We'll see. Right now, it looks like it has the potential to get ugly.
Information coming from World Net Daily should always be confirmed from other sources before any conclusion is drawn. That's my practice. I won't comment on any WND story until I've been able to check other sources.
It is an unreliable publication.
Exactly. Anybody who has ever worked a day in a professional services firm knows it. It happens all the time.
If there was any true wrongdoing (participation in fraud) there would have been criminal indictments, (anyone remember Arthur Anderson) not merely a monetary settlement. There would have been disbarments. The firm would have gone under. None of this seems to have happened in this case.
Notice the co-author - Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D.
Of course he has not the grace to admit an error and pull the appointment.
She was a MANAGING PARTNER but she was unaware of cases being managed by the firm she was a part of? The story may not be true and I will wait to hear it from several sources before determining that it is.
I'm just thinking that the story that she is innocent because she did not know what was happening is not going to fly. Even if it is true.
Agreed and agreed. I do not support her nomination, but this is a low blow and there is absolutely nothing here to suggest she had any involvement in this. Nothing.
He may have agreed, but who knows if he actually had the means to do so? Defendants often agree to restitution with the understanding they will never have the ability to repay.
I hate the idea of linking to a paid Soros stooge, but I believe the O'Neill quotes are accurate:
"During an appearance on MSNBC's Scarborough Country on August 10 with substitute host Pat Buchanan, when asked by Buchanan about some of Corsi's more bigoted statements, O'Neill downplayed Corsi's role in writing the book, claiming that he was "simply an editor and not really any sort of co-author" and complained about "stories in circulation about his e-mails where he made stupid statements."
On August 11, on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, when Blitzer asked O'Neill if he would like to "disassociate" himself from Corsi's comments "which appear to be anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic," O'Neill quickly responded, "Oh, absolutely" -- but then O'Neill proceeded again to downplay Corsi's role. "Corsi acted as sort of an editor of our book. ... He simply helped us in editing the book," O'Neill said. When Blitzer returned, asking, "All right, but he's listed as the co-author of the book, isn't he?" O'Neill admitted that Corsi was listed as the book's co-author but again claimed that he performed only "a function in editing, in -- particularly in the second half of the book, in historical research, because he had done a great deal of research on the anti-war movement, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, but not in the Vietnam section of the book."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200408120005
And, indeed, a lot of the VVAW research Corsi is cited as doing was first done by others.
Jerome Corsi disparages Bush at every turn? I seem to remember a year ago on FR he was our hero for telling the truth about John Kerry. And now?
He's not my hero; I like truth -- and from what I remembering, he was sorely lacking in personal truthfulness.
But since you brought it up, I was speaking of Farah and WND.
I've read through the article now and I am beginning to agree with your assessment. The article brings up the case, and the fact that Miers was managing partner, but it never demonstrates a real link between Miers and the wrongdoing. Some have said that it is purely guilt by association, but that's not a legitimate argument because she was the managing partner and bore a lot of the responsibility for what occurred under her watch. That being said, as you pointed out, it has not been demonstrated that ANY of the wrongdoing occurred under her watch. Corsi may be a credible source, but he has not convinced me, someone very critical of the President's appointment of Miers, that this controversy has anything at all to do with Miers beyond a very weak association.
Just checked and confirmed she was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, meaning she was not one of the lawyers allegedly abetting the fraud. At worst she was one of several hundred other lawyers in the same firm as the alleged bad guys.
I was pointing out that Farah did not write the article, Jerome Corsi did.
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