Posted on 04/01/2016 8:25:01 PM PDT by FR_addict
While he travelled the state running for Senate last year, Ted Cruz found time to make $1 million representing deeply immoral clients of his former law firm. As the Dallas Morning News explains in their (pay-walled) investigate report, among his final clients were a businessman who pleaded guilty to bribery, a drug manufacturer that fired an employee who refused to break the law, and a company that illegally copied anothers tire design. Cruz lost all of those cases.
The businessman was Robert Mericle, who bribed two judges to give minors harsher sentences in the infamous kids for cash system. Why? To make money for his private juvenile detention center. Cruz lost the case, but he took home hundreds of thousands of Mericles money.
Two days after the arguments, Cruz appeared in his first primary debate with Dewhurst. The court had Mericle pay $2.15 million to fund local childrens health and welfare programs, and he faces up to three years in prison. His lawyer is now arguably the most prominent Republican in America. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at burntorangereport.com ...
The “Tire” case was about a foreign company (I think it was Chinese, but not sure) stole the designs of a Floridian for a particular heavy duty tire and also the inventors list of buyers and the Owner was about to go bankrupt. Thank goodness the case was lost and the American got his company and his inventions and clients back. I don’t believe Cruz argued the case, but did prepare the defense.
Cruz was a corporate lawyer for Morgan Lewis. I don’t know how much choice they get about their cases, but this is old news that Dewhurst tried to use in 2012.
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/texas-size-mudballs-in-gop-senate-runoff/
Your facile attempt at an insult saddens me.
The insurance company didn’t cause his client to commit crimes. I was disgusted when Clinton got State Farm to pay for his illegal harassment of Paula Jones under his umbrella insurance.
The man had the money to pay Cruz’ fee. The mother of the child who committed suicide after getting caught up in the system wanted the guilty conspirators to pay not the insurance company.
Why this nation hired a Harvard Law Schooled, ineligible junior senator, to rule over US... It has worked so well we need to repeat the same practice. We will just call this next phase ‘conservative’.... and pretend it is.
Cruz had nothing to do with the creation of the fund or how much it pays victims. He was not one of the attorneys listed on the agreement. If anything, Cruzs only involvement in the case would have resulted in more not less money for victims.
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Well at the end of the day I guess we're just not on the same page, because my definition of facile is your dodging of the issue of degraded clients by generalizing legal representation.
The money was already awarded. The man didn’t want to pay so he sued his real estate insurance company to pay for his crimes.
So he pocketed a million dollars for losing cases while running for Senate.....
.....at least he wasn’t exactly taking campaign bribes.
Maybe I can enlighten you about your boy Teddy. He is a paid slimy mouthpiece. He will represent anybody, as this article relates. But wait, there is more. Teddy takes their money and LOSES! Teddy isn't so great after all!
While at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Cruz represented Pfizer in a lawsuit brought by a group of public hospitals and community health centers who accused the drug manufacturer of overcharging. The Supreme Court eventually threw the case out.[71] Shandong Linglong Rubber Company was found guilty of marketing versions of tires that were based on blueprints stolen by a former employee of a Florida businessman and ordered to pay $26 million to the Floridian. Cruz worked on the Chinese company's appellant brief. The appeals court denied the appeal and affirmed the jury's award.[72] Cruz represented drug manufacturer B. Braun Medical Inc. in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit after the company was found guilty of wrongfully discharging a former employee. Cruz asserted that she had failed to prove that B. Braun had directed her to violate the law and that she had not presented sufficient evidence that her refusal to violate the law was why she had been fired. The appeals court rejected Cruz's argument and affirmed the $880,000 award.[72] Cruz represented Toyota in an appeal to the Texas Supreme Court in an statute of limitations case, where a judge wanted to investigate Toyota for contempt after a former Toyota in-house lawyer accused Toyota of unlawfully withholding documents in a product liability case.[73] Cruz unsuccessfully argued the judge's jurisdiction expired thirty days after the case was dismissed following an out-of-court settlement... -Wiki, Ted Cruz Private Practice!
There’s that civility Jim was asking for.
Cruz is a leftist/globalist at heart who pretends to be Christian and conservative because it’s the path he’s chosen to achieve his goal of being world leader.
And people fall for it.
Prove to me that Barack Obama attended or graduated from Harvard Law School. Many have claimed that, but I’ve never seen a lick of proof.
President Reagan has a couple of words for you... will only take a few seconds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXOpm0H7QA
So you think you’re “un-zottable” do you? I’ve seen much better FReepers than you fall by wayside. LOL
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