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Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice

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This Wessman cat sounds like a real scumbag.

Yet Mueller tapped a different sort of prosecutor to lead his investigation — his long-time friend and former counsel, Andrew Weissmann. He is not just a “tough” prosecutor. Time after time, courts have reversed Weissmann’s most touted “victories” for his tactics. This is hardly the stuff of a hero in the law.

Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court.

Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice | TheHill
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apdst said:
This Wessman cat sounds like a real scumbag.
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Well, he's a lawyer, so the chances of him being a scumbag are pretty good. Sorry that he's going against your Deity.
 
rocket88 said:
Well, he's a lawyer, so the chances of him being a scumbag are pretty good. Sorry that he's going against your Deity.
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It appears that he's the kind of prosecuter who will fabricate evidence.
 
apdst said:
This Wessman cat sounds like a real scumbag.
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Such dishonesty from an opinion piece
ENRON'S COLLAPSE: THE OVERVIEW; ARTHUR ANDERSEN FIRES AN EXECUTIVE FOR ENRON ORDERS - The New York Times


Arthur Andersen fired its partner in charge of auditing the Enron Corporation today, saying he had ordered the destruction of thousands of documents and e-mail messages after learning that the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun an investigation of Enron's accounting.

The fired partner, David B. Duncan, called a meeting of auditors at the firm's Houston office and ordered ''an expedited effort to destroy documents'' on Oct. 23, the day after Enron disclosed that the S.E.C. had begun its inquiry, the firm said. The destruction apparently did not end until Mr. Duncan's assistant sent an e-mail message to other secretaries on Nov. 9 that said ''stop the shredding,'' the firm said. Andersen had received a subpoena from the S.E.C. the day before.
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Judge screwed up-
Justices Overturn Andersen Conviction

The Supreme Court overturned the 2002 criminal conviction of Enron Corp.'s accounting firm yesterday, nullifying with a single stroke one of the government's biggest victories in the corporate scandals that climaxed the bull market of the 1990s.

The court ruled unanimously that the Houston jury that found Arthur Andersen LLP guilty of obstruction of justice was given overly broad instructions by the federal judge who presided at the trial.
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How about we all just let the investigation go where it may, and let the courts decided whether there exists any merit to any charges that might be handed down -- if that happens.
 
apdst said:
That damn Constitution, huh? :lamo

When The Supreme Court rules unanimously against you, you screwed up bad.
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Nope- Not at all- you misrepresented information in your op.
 
JANFU said:
Nope- Not at all- you misrepresented information in your op.
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I quoted the article. I misrepresented nothing per the norm, anything you don't like is automatically a lie, because you can't argue against it.
 
apdst said:
That damn Constitution, huh? :lamo

When The Supreme Court rules unanimously against you, you screwed up bad.
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Um
The fault was with the judge's instructions, not the prosecutor.
 
Mueller has a very sizable team of prosecutors, all of whom specialize in different types of law. Are you going to try an defame each and every one of them?
 
apdst said:
I quoted the article. I misrepresented nothing per the norm, anything you don't like is automatically a lie, because you can't argue against it.
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Is the OP an opinion piece? yes or no?
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Um
The fault was with the judge's instructions, not the prosecutor.
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Yes,
From a link in the Sidney Powell article linked in the OP
The court ruled unanimously that the Houston jury that found Arthur Andersen LLP guilty of obstruction of justice was given overly broad instructions by the federal judge who presided at the trial.
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What the heck? What is Powell doing there? I think he has some 'splaining to do.

Edited to add: i left a comment to this effect on The Hill
There , I did something to help someone

Thanks go to Lord Tammerlain, good catch. I would never have noticed.
 
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apdst said:
This Wessman cat sounds like a real scumbag.
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None of this is, in the least, surprising. Heck, Mueller himself has a history of collusion and questionable legal shenanigans. Why would anyone expect him to change now?
 
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