Posted by The Huffington Post yesterday offers how attorney Rob Riley profited handsomely “as local counsel to the New Mexico State Investment Council” in a civil suit against HealthSouth and its CEO Richard Scrushy. The Post zeroes in on the idea that Rob Riley would have benefitted from insight that Don Siegelman (not yet indicted) would be facing legal woes and that Scrushy would be ensnared.
According to the article, Riley did not have much experience in securities litigation, and the thrust of the article may be summed in what a reader said in email, “If you have a case that could bring your pension fund millions who do you go get? Perhaps leaders in this type of litigation? Or in this case, someone who had foreknowledge of damaging information about Healthsouth’s CEO?”
And while Siegelman & Company are not winning legal battles, they appear to be making strides in the public arena. For example, when Joe Conason of the New York Observer in a column yesterday wanted an aside (in an article otherwise about Eliot Spitzer) to illustrate that “the Justice Department’s record under the Bush regime inevitably raises suspicions now,” of all possible example he might have used, he flatly asserts that Siegelman “was sent to prison on transparently inflated charges, using flawed evidence.”
But between winning in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion, he’s not winning where it counts for him.
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Danny I wonder how many people Siegelman laughed at back in the day when they turned to him trying to get an innocent loved one out of prison? Just like Eliot Spitzer learned this week…what goes around comes around.
“What goes around, comes around”
Justice in America.
Two-term Governor Don Siegelman was found guilty, his appeal is ongoing. The Lefties who scream ‘political prisoner’ now say that not only did the GOP falsely imprison Siegelman, they made money on it! Wow, that’s pretty slick.
This quote should tell you all you need to know about the credibility of the Leftie HuffPo writer:
“according to local Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson”
While Siegelman’s story resonates with the chattering classes, does it elsewhere? Not seeing small town papers editorializing on the subject, just running Martin’s columns. Not seeing any rallies/fund raisers being held, just a lot of chatter online and in the pundit magazines. Nothing that you point too and say the “People of Alabama say free Don”.
Because the people of Alabama know Don Siegelman. The others don’t. They just see a way to try to smear Rove and, thus, Bush.
Not an expert, but it doesn’t seem like it takes a lot of looking to find information that tends to “smear Rove, and thus Bush.’ I think you can do a pretty goood job of that even without the Siegelman fiasco.
[While Siegelman’s story resonates with the chattering classes, does it elsewhere? ]
3 Time Magazine Articles, 10 New York Times Editorials, a petition from 52 former AG’s of both parties, 5 MSNBC segments, A 60 minutes episode, 7 Decatur Daily editorials, 6 Anniston Star editorials, 5 Tuscaloosa News editorials, 2 Dothan Eagle Editorials, 2 Fort Payne Times Daily Editorials, and a congressional inquiry.
What you meant to say was since the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register aren’t writing it, then it ain’t nothing.
As an aside, am I the only one who finds it informative that the Department of Justice links to numerous articles by these papers if you search their website for “Siegelman”?
Still waiting for someone to have the guts to just go ahead and say what they really mean – “yeah they may have screwed Siegelman but, guilty or not, I’m just glad he’s in prison.”
Blackjack, nice to see you keeping score. Yet, where is the public outrage, where is the grassroots Alabama support, where are the collection jars in the country stores? Where are the articles/editorials in the small papers, like the Luverne Journal, Selma Times-Journal, Franklin County Times, Cherokee County Herald, etc?
FWIW, I have the guts to say I’m happy to see him in prison. The courts will eventually sort out the propriety of his conviction, while the next President will preside over the inevitable purge and probable trials.
FWIW, I have the guts to say I’m happy to see him in prison. The courts will eventually sort out the propriety of his conviction, while the next President will preside over the inevitable purge and probable trials.
^InJustice Bama Style^