[Swanks]

There's enough here for Roy Black and Ruchbo to drop a donation to FR; saved 'em tons of work on who's behind the curtains. Granted, piles of wood and brick dumped on the front lawn. But enough to build a holding pen for a few Rats.

[TaxRelief]

There's enough here for Roy Black and Ruchbo to drop a donation to FR...

Maybe someone should mention it's pledge time to one of them...LOL

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More on Boies:

He has another good buddy in NY: Judge Lewis Kaplan who handed him the Christies/Sotheby collusion case on a platter after numerous other firms spent tens of thousands competing for the job.

From the NY Observer:

"But Judge Kaplan was unmoved. The process remained intact, and on May 26, after a mere 24 hours reviewing the bids, he awarded the case to Mr. Boies.

What remains particularly galling for the other lawyers is the apparent close relationship between Messrs. Kaplan and Boies. That association is typified, they say, by what happened just after Mr. Boies won the case. Judge Kaplan placed a personal call to Mr. Boies, they say, telling him he had won. Meanwhile, he left it up to Mr. Boies to fax the other attorneys. Some of those lawyers, many of whom had committed months of labor and tens of thousands of dollars to the case, learned they had been cut out only when they read about it in newspapers.