Word: lawyerly
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Huang is only part of a suddenly visible network of agents who have acted as conduits between a cash-obsessed campaign on one side and deep-pocketed business and foreign interests on the other. The Justice Department is investigating James Wood, an Arkansas lawyer who became the first political appointee to head the American Institute on Taiwan, the unofficial U.S. embassy there. Natale Bellochi, Wood's predecessor as ait chairman, and Taiwan businessmen had reportedly informed the State Department that the Arkansan was improperly using his post to seek campaign donations for Clinton. Wood denies the charge...
Last week, however, Jewell stepped forward to claim a tremendous victory. On Oct. 26, in a highly unusual move, a federal prosecutor sent Jewell's lawyer a letter saying that Jewell is no longer a "target" in the federal investigation of the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta last summer. For three days in July, Jewell had been a hero, since he was the security guard who had noticed the unattended knapsack containing the bomb. Then, just as suddenly, he was identified as the prime suspect and was relentlessly pursued by both the FBI and the press...
Robert Ronquillo, a court-appointed lawyer who represented Chang at her bail hearing, said, "She is not claiming she's a Harvard University student. She's saying that she attended Harvard in the past...
...showed the letter to half a dozen a lawyers, all of whom were amazed, some even angered," said Afrasiabi, who will represent himself in the case. "One lawyer said he should frame it. Harvard has no right to do this...
...always amazes me when the child of a wealthy lawyer states with absolute certainty how the food stamp program should work. I imagine that their certitude stems from their vast experience with the system. Why do we, the "elite," suppose that we have all the answers...