Comments on: Milberg Weiss: At Long Last, Two Partners, and the Firm Itself, Are Indicted http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/05/19/milberg-weiss-two-partners-and-the-firm-itself-indicted/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/05/19/milberg-weiss-two-partners-and-the-firm-itself-indicted/#comment-11707 TBlumer Fri, 19 May 2006 18:27:12 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2168#comment-11707 #1 -- - The investigation, as the article notes, dates back to 1999 and the Democrat Clinton Administration's Justice Department headed up by Janet Reno. So they worked on it for 13-25 months before handing it over to the Bush DOJ. Yes, I know they are allegations, and that has been made abundantly clear in the post. Taking kickbacks to be a class-action participant is illegal. What is there not to understand about that, except to wait and see if the prosecution can prove its case? In the meantime, it's "odd" how the Forbes 400 contains so many rich trial lawyers who have made a career of plundering "largely bad" businesses like the household names mentioned in the article, yet somehow manage to portray themselves as heroes of the little guy. What a crock. #1 —
- The investigation, as the article notes, dates back to 1999 and the Democrat Clinton Administration’s Justice Department headed up by Janet Reno. So they worked on it for 13-25 months before handing it over to the Bush DOJ.

Yes, I know they are allegations, and that has been made abundantly clear in the post.

Taking kickbacks to be a class-action participant is illegal. What is there not to understand about that, except to wait and see if the prosecution can prove its case?

In the meantime, it’s “odd” how the Forbes 400 contains so many rich trial lawyers who have made a career of plundering “largely bad” businesses like the household names mentioned in the article, yet somehow manage to portray themselves as heroes of the little guy.

What a crock.

]]> By: darrian nayz http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/05/19/milberg-weiss-two-partners-and-the-firm-itself-indicted/#comment-11706 darrian nayz Fri, 19 May 2006 18:14:55 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=2168#comment-11706 Listen up blowhard! These are ALLEGATIONS! It appears that this is truly "a partisan attack by a Republican U.S. administration trying to do in court what it could not accomplish in Congress with class action reform proposals." The reason why most (sane) people think that business is largely bad is because IT IS!!!! Listen up blowhard! These are ALLEGATIONS! It appears that this is truly “a partisan attack by a Republican U.S. administration trying to do in court what it could not accomplish in Congress with class action reform proposals.” The reason why most (sane) people think that business is largely bad is because IT IS!!!!

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