Accuser's former lawyer backs Torricelli on clock flap

AP via NJ.com ^ | 9/20/02 4:02 PM | LAURENCE ARNOLD

[Jean S]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former lawyer for David Chang, the chief accuser in the ethics case against Sen. Robert Torricelli, is taking the lawmaker's side in a lingering dispute over whether he accepted a $3,600 clock in violation of Senate rules.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Extinguish The Torch

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I don't think all this information is going to help the Torch. It's just keeping the scandals on the 'front burner'. Freegards....

[San Jacinto]

Chang claims Critchley and other former lawyers worked secretly with Torricelli to undermine his defense

The former lawyer seems to confirm this allegation by his current actions in undermining Chang.

[The Old Hoosier]

Chang claims Critchley and other former lawyers worked secretly with Torricelli to undermine his defense.

This is the operative sentence.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The fact that the Torch has a taste for $3,000 clocks doesn't help his image much though. And this sleazy acquaintance doesn't make him look good either.

[gridlock]

Critchley said he found in his files about 10 canceled Bright & Bright checks from May to August, 1996, all for travel expenses, and all made out to cash. One was for $3,600. Others were for $3,300, $3,000, $3,400 and $3,380.

Uh, maybe they were all bribes.

[pikachu]

Bright and Bright seems more like Dumb and Dumber

[Stentor]

Torricelli, accompanied by Chang and using cash, bought the clock three days later at a Lambertville, N.J., antiques store for $3,600, plus tax.

The only thing I can afford in Lambertville is brealfast at Sneddon's. (one egg)

[Stentor]

breakfast.

[Coop]

I don't think all this information is going to help the Torch. It's just keeping the scandals on the 'front burner'. Freegards....

Exactly. Ain't it sweet? :-)

Forrester - 52%, Torricelli - 38%

[LonePalm]

Go Doug! Go Doug!

NJ, it's time to put out the Torch!

BTTMA! (Bump To The Moon, Alice!)

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Decent people of New Jersy, I'm sorry for all the bad things I said about you!

Another point people forget about: REAL economics, the Reagan Tax Cut.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/754065/posts

[Politico2]

Critchley, who insists Torricelli played no role in matching him up with Chang...

Maybe so... nevertheless:

"[L]awyers familiar with the case said the prosecutors had repeatedly raised the possibility of a conflict of interest in the fact that Mr. Critchley, the trial lawyer who represented Mr. Chang until he agreed to cooperate with the government, has been a supporter of and fund-raiser for Mr. Torricelli." (The New York Times, February 7, 2001)

[bioprof]

In addition to the questionable match up of a Torch fundraiser as the initial defense attorney to Chang :

a) whether Critchley is an Ex- attorney or not, isn't he still bound by attorney-client privelege? Isn't it totally unethical to reveal ANYTHING in a clint's files ( former or not) without the client's permission? How can he get away with revealing facts about these other checks in Chang's file?????

b) remember that when this whole thing started, Torch claimed Chang was "his friend" and wasn't going nuclear after him....it was only when Chang started letting assorted & sundry cats out of multiple bags that the "defense" strategy changed....demonize Chang at all cost...give Chang credit for seeing the writing on the wall & switching counsel before it was too late.

[Politico2]

I don't know about (a) but it would seem so, but interesting point(b). Do you notice that when Torricelli's friends become political liabilities, he has no hesitation to cut them off -- Chang, the MEK, and the West Point guy... Surely you know the West Point guy...

[bioprof]

Ok, OK....I don't know YET who the West Point guy is.

However, I give myself until tomorrow to find out ( unless someone else wants to be kind & post it for me! ).

Homework.........