Posted on 09/19/2007 3:57:52 PM PDT by KingofZion
Though his former law firm came under indictment more than a year ago and he himself appeared likely to face criminal charges, prominent trial lawyer William S. Lerach slipped past the vetting of John Edwards' presidential campaign and was permitted to raise large amounts of money for the Democrat's 2008 bid.
Lerach, his family and members of his new law Lerach Coughlin law firm accounted for nearly $78,000 in donations to Edwards' campaign in the first half of this year, making the trial lawyer one of the North Carolina Democrat's leading "bundlers" of contributions. *** Through it all, Edwards stood by his fellow trial lawyer and even took an action this spring that was helpful to his longtime financial supporter in a government matter.
In May, Edwards used the bully pulpit of his presidential campaign to publicly pressure the Securities and Exchange Commission not to oppose Lerach's new law firm in a Supreme Court case over whether Lerach's lawsuits could proceed against banks on behalf of investors who lost millions in the collapse of energy giant Enron.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
He might have been, but while with a different law firm, commonly known as Milberg-Weiss.....the following is snipped from an Apr 2002 Enron complaint
Civil Action No. H-01-3624
(Consolidated)
CLASS ACTION
CONSOLIDATED COMPLAINT FOR
VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES LAWS
MILBERG WEISS BERSHAD
HYNES & LERACH LLP
STEVEN G. SCHULMAN
SAMUEL H. RUDMAN
One Pennsylvania Plaza
New York, NY 10119-1065
Telephone: 212/594-5300
Lerach, Hillary, and Edwards: all with the morals of a drug dealer.
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