Bracewell & Giuliani (What's a presidential candidate doing in Kazakhstan-a former Soviet state?)

lawyers.com ^ | 10/24/07

[Liz]

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP Profile

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Year Established: 1945)

201 Main Street, Suite 1600 (Tarrant County)

Fort Worth, Texas 76102

Contact Information

Phone: 817-332-8143

Fax: 817-332-8409

URL: http://www.bgllp.com

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP practices in the following areas of law: School and Public Law, Labor and Employment Law, General, Administrative, Public Utilities, Energy, Environmental, Banking Litigation and Legislative.

Firm Profile: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is among the world's most prominent law firms. With 400 lawyers in New York, Connecticut, Texas, Washington, D.C., Dubai, Kazakhstan and London, the firm is well positioned to serve clients concentrated in the energy and financial services sectors worldwide.

In 2005, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined Bracewell as a senior partner. His international reputation for leadership and problem solving is a unique asset for firm clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, leading private investment funds, governmental entities and individuals.

Bracewell provides guidance on business law, finance, litigation, and government relations and regulatory policy. The firm has developed highly regarded concentrations in specific industries and disciplines.

Some of these include: Energy: Bracewell delivers sophisticated legal, regulatory and transactional guidance to clients engaged in the exploration, production and delivery of traditional and alternative fuels, throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Caspian region.

Environmental Strategy: Bracewell helps senior corporate leaders address major environmental and energy issues such as climate change and air quality, through legislative advocacy, regulatory counseling, corporate governance and litigation.

Banks and Financial Institutions: Bracewell represents leading community, national and foreign financial institutions in commercial credit transactions, entity structuring, mergers and acquisitions, S-corporation conversions, IPOs, regulatory compliance and broker-dealer matters.

Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy: Bracewell represents domestic and multinational debtors, creditors, committees, purchasers and Chapter 11 trustees in formal bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court workouts, loan restructurings and purchases of distressed assets.

Private Investment Funds: Bracewell provides timely, balanced advice to private investment funds and their portfolio companies on fund formation, regulatory compliance, trading and regulated transactions, investments, acquisitions, special situations and risk management.

White Collar Criminal Defense and Special Investigations: Bracewell's team of experienced former prosecutors helps clients conduct internal inquiries, prevent potentially illegal conduct, address compliance and governance issues, respond to regulatory inquiries, and defend against law-enforcement actions.

Other Areas: As a general practice firm, Bracewell has considerable bench strength in the requisite practice areas including government relations, strategic communications, tax, labor and employment law, intellectual property, real estate, government contracting and school and public law.

Firm Size: 365

Other Office Locations of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (Main Office) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. New York, New York, U.S.A. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. London, England Almaty, Kazakhstan Astana, Kazakhstan

Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices

Houston, Texas Office: 711 Louisiana Street, Suite 2300, 77002-2770. Telephone: 713-223-2300. Fax: 713-221-1212.

Austin, Texas Office: 111 Congress Avenue, Suite 2300, 78701-4052. Telephone: 512-472-7800. Fax: 512-472-9123.

Dallas, Texas Office: 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 3800, 75202-2711. Telephone: 214-468-3800. Fax: 214-468-3888.

Hartford, Connecticut Office: Goodwin Square, 225 Asylum Street, Suite 2600, 06103. Telephone: 860-947-9000. Fax: 860-760-6789.

New York, N.Y. Office: 1177 Avenue of the Americas, 19th Floor, 10036. Telephone: 212-508-6100. Fax: 212-508-6101.

San Antonio, Texas Office: 800 One Alamo Center, 106 S. St. Mary's Street, 78205. Telephone: 210-226-1166. Fax: 210-226-1133.

Washington, D.C. Office: 2000 K Street, N.W., Suite 500, 20006-1872. Telephone: 202-828-5800. Fax: 202-223-1225.

London, England Office: 15 Old Bailey, EC4M 7EF. Telephone: +011-44-20-3159-4220. Fax: +011-44-20-3159-4221.

Almaty, Kazakhstan Office: 57 Amangeldy Street, 480012. Telephone: 73272-581-400. Fax: 73272-581-444. Astana, Kazakhstan Office: Karaotkel Compound, Office C-7-2. Telephone: 011-7-3172-222-127.

(For Data on all Firm Personnel, see Professional Biographies at Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, New York, N.Y., Hartford, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., London, England, Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan)

[Liz]

REVIEW: Rudi/Judi on Hannity.

The Rooty campaign is in emergency mode b/c the polls apparently show Jooty his third wife (and former mistress) is a drag on the campaign.

Talk about media manipulation----the Hannity interview was hyped as Rooty's Hillary-bashing---to inveigle viewers to watch.

From the getgo, the entire exercise was intended to whitewash Rooty's biggest problem---his third wife---Jooty. Rooty dumped his wife and kids to be with Jooty who abandoned her only child to be with the married Mayor.

Jooty had been instructed to act like the demure worshipful Stepford wife. All she needed was a ruffled gingham frock to complete the masquerade.

Jooty had dutifully memorized all her answers to questions which Sean read verbatim from a cheat sheet. Hannity was well-briefed to ask the "right" questions and Jooty responded like Pavlov's dog. Sean was coached to get answers that were obviously focus-grouped to the nth degree.

Rooty's attempts to look "sincere" were laughable. Posturing, slitting his eyes to look serious---all of them laughing at the dumbness---the NRA phone thing AND the idiotic Cabinet interview w/ Bwabwa.

The Rooty campaign is in emergency mode b/c the polls apparently show Jooty is a drag on the campaign; the nitwit actually told an appalled America she planned to sit in on Cabinet meetings. Now Rooty and Jooty are stupidly laughing over the very crackbrained idea they themselves came up with.

Sean should hang his head in shame for giving Rooty TV time----not b/c it was effective---but b/c it was a witless attempt to resurrect Jooty. Viewers have never been so manipulated as they were in this interview. Sean should be ashamed for using his audience in that manner.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe they were financing a sequel to that movie Borat..

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

They have a lot of oil. Make nice with Kazakhstan and you can tell Hugo Chavez to go screw.

[Liz]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Will Endorse Giuliani
The Atlantic | 10/17/07 FR Posted on 10/17/2007 by mylife

Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to endorse Rudy Giuliani at an early morning news conference, Giuliani campaign advisers confirmed. Perry, who succeeded George W. Bush as governor, would be the first sitting governor to endorse Giuliani. He brings added cachet as a Southerner and a social conservative, although he is not uniformly well-regarded by conservative elites in Washington. He may -- or may not be -- a vice presidential prospect. He is in the party's center on immigration, and has clashed, at times, with various wings of the Texas Republican Party. Giuliani's finance team is top-heavy with Texas Republicans, and the Perry and Giuliani circles intersect. (Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...

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PERRY IMPEACHMENT Some have called for Perry's impeachment. Perry did a "Dixie Chick." Perry went to Mexico and criticized the US on foreign soil. This should not be treated as a small slip of the tongue. Perry is trying to influence the measures or conduct of Mexico WRT disputes or controversies with the United States, and/or trying to defeat the measures of the United States in collusion with the Mexican government. Due to his global connections, does Giuliani agree with undermining US sovereignity, by trying to defeat the measures of the United States in collusion with foreign governments?

BACKSTORY In Mexico for trade talks, Perry blasts immigration policies
Houston Chronicle, Mexico City Bureau | Aug. 28, 2007 | DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Posted on 08/28/2007 5:35:20 PM PDT by Dubya

MEXICO CITY — Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers. "I don't think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric," Perry said during a break in the third day of meetings with Mexican officials and business executives. (Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...

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Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard, author of the internationally acclaimed "The Clash of Civilizations," wrote "Mexican immigration is a unique, disturbing and looming challenge to our cultural integrity, our national identity, and potentially to our future as a country. The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril.""

We need rational leaders who understand the dimensions of the problem. Perry and Giuliani are not among this group.

[Calpernia]

There are several research groups that claim the 13th Amendment was altered. The issue is hotly contested. I must say, their research makes me raise my eyebrow. But they have documentation that supports their claim. The 13th Amendment (claim) stated:

"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility, or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present, pension, office, or emolument, of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them:"

If this is true, then "Sir Rooty" cannot run for President.

Click here to see all their sources

The Constitution - Federalist - 1862
Pages 46 and 47 - Showing the 13th Amendment in place

The Whig Almanac of 1845, has these pages and shows the 13th Amendment in place
Page 25 - Showing the 13th Amendment in place

[MinuteGal]

Evidently a few hundred of Americans living in Kazakhstan paid a couple of thou to the fundraiser there.

Whether or not these are the Guiliani firm's employees or are are otherwise involved with the firm and who are acting as filters for foreign contributions is unknown......and I have a picture of our federal election committee investigating something funny going on with campaign contributions in a remote place called Kazakhstan.

How sweet it is!

Leni

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“Make nice with Kazakhstan and you can tell Hugo Chavez to go screw.”

I didn’t know that one guy could skroo America so much and often without a prostate......

Giuliani: Helping Citgo helps U.S.
Venezuela-owned company hired his law firm

March 19, 2007
BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
TAMPA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended his law firm’s role in representing Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is ultimately controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying it was helping protect American jobs.

Giuliani said his opponents will try to exploit the news and acknowledged a lawyer with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston has been representing Citgo before the Texas legislature.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/303247,CST-NWS-giu19.article

[mimaw]

Sure they’ll get to that right after they investigate funds to Hillary from Chinese Communist agents. Some of you people will jump on anything.

[Liz]

..........a few hundred Americans living in Kazakhstan paid a couple of thou to Rudy's fundraiser there. Whether or not these are the Guiliani firm's employees or are are otherwise involved with the firm and who are acting as filters for foreign contributions is unknown.........

A few hundred Americans living in Kazakhstan contributing to Giuliani? Now that's a laugh riot right there. Even funnier----- when Rooty ran the NYT ad (in response to the Petreaeus ad)---Giuliani had the gall to say "he raised $165 thou in contributions" to place the ad.

FReeper calpernia shared with the forum the politician's MO to launder offshore money----using stolen ID's and names that they attach to contributions to square with their FEC filings---except the putative donors have no idea they donated.

[Liz]

"Sir Rooty" cannot run for President : There are several research groups that claim the 13th Amendment was altered. The 13th Amendment (claim) stated: "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility, or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present, pension, office, or emolument, of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them...."

Rooty is from the School of Whatever Works For me. He does not need laws nor will he abide by them. It's called "selective enforcement."

Selective enforcement is an attack on the rule of law that accelerates a dangerous process: Selective enforcement is undermining the civil and constitutional guarantees of law-abiding Americans.

Historically, selective enforcement of the law is recognized as a sign of tyranny, and an abuse of power, because it violates the sacrosanct Rule of Law, allowing L/E and those in positions of power to apply justice only if and when they choose.

Aside from the inherent injustice, selective enforcement almost always leads to practices antithetical to democracy, such as favoritism and extortion.

Those empowered to choose who to prosecute will then help their friends exclusively, be tempted to take bribes, and to extort and threaten those from whom they desire favors.

Selective enforcement accelerates the US descent into Third Worldism.

[Calpernia]

Presbyterian Reporter has been posting a number of articles showing support of that theory.

S

[Calpernia]

Dictorship

[PurpleMan]

You are, to use Rick’s line is “Casablanca,” misinformed

It was an honorary knighting - “h-o-n-o-r-a-r-y”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/1840180.stm

Carries nothing; allows nothing; Is not “kneeling before the Monarch.”

Sheesh.

[George W. Bush]

Did you catch this Placa story today? That first one has the video ABC played this morning. Rudi sure parades around with Placa a lot.

The Raw Story | ABC: Giuliani 'defending and protecting' predator priest?

Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens

[Calpernia]

“h-o-n-o-r-a-r-y” is covered.

>>>If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility, or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress<<

[PurpleMan]

So any military person who recieves a foreign award or “honour” is ineligible too.

Right.

[darkangel82]

Heck, I'm net even a registered Republican.

Neither is Rudy.

[Calpernia]

I would assume that would come with consent.

[PurpleMan]

So any military person who recieves a foreign award or “honour” is ineligible too.

Right.

[PurpleMan]

Sue.

Let SCOTUS decide.