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Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked

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Posted by:   bobo 5/21/2006 9:04 AM

Eliot Spitzer can't give Milberg Weiss' money back fast enough.

Bad money. Bad dirty money.

Apparently, he doesn't want his campaign tainted by being funded by a NY law firm, one of the most prominent, which has now been indicted for racketeering, and every sort of crookery one can imagine.

Here's the article.

Now, one could certainly ask how MW could have been that crooked for 20 years, and yet it is all a big secret.

How the AG for the state they are located in could have not a clue that they are bent as the Mob. At least, if the allegations leveled by the US AG are correct.

I mean, how does that work?

I live in a relatively large town, and everyone knows who the crooks are. It isn't a big secret. Every now and then one of them appears in a garbage bag. Surprises nobody.

Because they are known as the crooked guys.

So how does Spitzer run for Governor, with his campaign financed by a who's who of Wall Street, and groups like MW?

Last time I checked, Wall Street is sanctioned virtually every few weeks for some blatantly illegal or unethical behavior.

And now their favored class action attorneys are exposed as the worst of the worst. Defining a new bottom for the genre, as 'twere.

Anyone notice a bit of hypocrisy here? Just a tad?

Anyone fooled that longtime friend of Cramer, who likes to toss SEC subpoenas on the floor, and deface them, on national TV, could have been the AG of NY for years, and yet NEVER get a whiff that MW was dirty dirty dirty?

Puhleeeese.

I mean, really.

Just another chapter in the, "Maybe if we all pretend there is no elephant in the room, nobody else will notice it" volume that issues forth from NY every day.

Puhleeeeese.

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Another SEC senior official jumps ship.

Enforcement seems to be losing most of their top guys over the last year or so - that probably is no cause for concern, right?

And that they all wind up at super-successful law firms that largely cater to Wall Street or defend white collar crooks is merely coincidence.

What an odd and serendipitous world we live in. Kroll hiring folks instrumental in enforcement in our favorite hedge fund case, enforcement personnel leaving to go work for firms that specialize in defending the bad guys...

It's all just coincidence, I'm sure.
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Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By gregcable2002 on 5/21/2006 10:55 AM
Oh what a tangeled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.I guess everything comes out in the wash.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By gregcable2002 on 5/21/2006 10:58 AM
Or,everything is GOING to come out in the wash.Keep up the great work Bunny and keep the light shinning on these crooks.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By totalknowledge2006 on 5/21/2006 11:38 AM
Kramer and his buddies led by Geenberg and Spitzer are all crooked .. Wheres Carol Redmond someone should tell her to lose some weight shes a prime suspect for a Heart Attack.When the heat goes on her fat butt shes gonna fill the pool with all her sweat she might even fit in a bikini when this is all said and done...Returning cash tell Elliott u can return the money all you want but the blood is still on his hands... Tell him go get H+R Block hope they have a field day with him ..Well Bunny I must say the plot gets thicker everday I guess Mr Byrne is telling the truth Dah we knew that 18 months ago... These guys are sickening and The SEC is a joke.Mass exodus doesnt mean theres nothing wrong you can run from guilt but you cant hide I hope it eats them alive...Great job Bunny I wanna see the day these guys all go down in flames...
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Gibbons on 5/21/2006 11:42 AM
Brent Baker jumped the SEC Ship. He is Overstocks attorney.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By FreddoCazzo on 5/21/2006 12:00 PM
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..........................I think I am actually too pissed off to even say anything at this point..............I cant f'in believe this crap............


..........still Freddo............even more cazzzo!
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By rick on 5/21/2006 12:22 PM
No wonder this larceny thrives. Look who stands to lose by the house coming down.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By rick on 5/21/2006 12:25 PM
How many millions would Spitzer need to return if one day he decided to do his job?
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By gregcable2002 on 5/21/2006 12:49 PM
I bet Brent Baker is the one thats leading the investigation to it's roots.We keep seeing the same cast of characters under every rock that gets turned over.It'll be interesting to see where the buck stops.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Idiot Shitzer on 5/21/2006 12:56 PM
Hey I run a pretty good protection racket don't I. I let anyone who contributes enough moola to my campaign fund run foul of the law. Look at MW! I let them get away with all of these crimes for years. I only selectively attack the ones who don't pay or ones where there are huge short positions where I am helping out my buds! How do you spell shakedown? Ya I had to give these funds because those DOJ pukes messing with my turf but I got plans for more ways to skin that cat.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By YOUR CONGRESS AT WORK on 5/21/2006 2:33 PM
Documents Allege Rep. Jefferson Caught on Tape Taking Bribe........................http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196379,00.html
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By anon on 5/21/2006 3:34 PM
Maybe it is time to run an ad in the NY papers telling about spitzer, the hegde funds, mw, non enforcement of the rules, sign it the little people.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By anon on 5/21/2006 3:40 PM
Businessweek article on Spitzer's 2004 campaign contributions.

http://tinyurl.com/ep7ox
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Jeremiah 9:24 on 5/21/2006 4:44 PM
Interesting, going back to BobO's last post regarding his OSTK conference call predictions, that the hedge funds, the prime brokers, the lapdog reporters, and the class action scum have all been or are in the process of being implicated and exposed for their roles in the illegal shorting/market manipulation scams a la OSTK and NFI, among many others. (How DID Milberg Weiss know which companies' prices would tank?)

The only major player that has not yet been implicated, though we all know he is there, is the SEC traitor who participates in the scam by bringing timely investigations against the target companies upon the demand of this true masters. I speak in general terms, as there are likely a number of these maggots in the SEC as opposed to just one.

I know of at least one, who shall for now remain nameless, as I was the attorney for an Elgindy victim who watched the SEC turn a victim complaint against an ongoing Elgindy manipulation and attempted extortion into an informal (could not find anything so never got to the 'formal' stage) investigation of the victim. I guess that is what we got for complaining about a favored manipulator's actions, eh? While the US Attorney who prosecuted that POS was very interested in what this victim company had to say, the SEC was not. There is at least one commissioner whom I am sure a number of us suspect to be an industry/manipulator plant put there to guard their interests--one who is certainly no friend of the small investor.

The point is, that BobO named a cast of characters, who have since been implicated--except for one, the bad element at the SEC. How much longer, BobO? Will we start to see the house being cleaned at the SEC? Are we seeing it, in the form of all these rats that have jumped off the ship over the last year or two? What do you think?
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Eliot Shyster on 5/21/2006 6:20 PM
KKKramer and Eliot Shyster at it again. Warren Buffett is waisting his time with the grad students, when Columbia University lets Cramer scum on their campus the same campus that Ben Graham and Buffett graced. Ben Graham for Gods sake. What has happened to our institutions of higher learnings?
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By r3fman on 5/21/2006 9:43 PM
The relevance of someone leaving the SEC and going to work for a law firm that deals with SEC matters escapes me. this is standard practice in every field where the government hires lawyers. It gets young lawyers at relatively low rates of pay, trains them at government expense, and then when they learn enough to be knowledgable and useful, the majority quit and go to work for a private firm at two to three times the pay.

Happens every day.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By bobo on 5/21/2006 10:23 PM
R3fman:

What do you call it when a guy from the SEC gets a mil+ a year to sit around playing gameboy, as he has not one client?

I could name names.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By bbhindyou on 5/22/2006 4:05 AM
I didn't get the story just the blurb .Something about a congress member being caught with a lot of cold cash, He was storing it in his freezer.Do any of you feel any suprise at this ? I don't.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Rod Young on 5/22/2006 4:09 AM
Jeremiah,

We do have a way to go after these maggots at the SEC! See my response to rpink on another thread a couple of days ago. Please contact me!


Re: Milberg Goes Down Hard, NFI Back On Reg SHO
By rpink on 5/19/2006 6:16 PM

Nicely worded summary of the facts.

Do you think it makes any sense to pick one person "in authority", say a board member of the DTCC. or a high ranking SEC offical, or some other "responsible authority" and have one individual, like me, file a law suit against them for "negligence" or some other legal error?

Officers of companies are responsible and liable for the actions of the company...why not these guys? I am out a ton of money due to the continued FTD abuse of NFI. I am not looking for a class action at this time, just a law suit to get the attention of the responsible people...get them in court and make them explain the lack of attention to an obvious crime...what say you?

Any other ideas..any takers out there?




Re: Milberg Goes Down Hard, NFI Back On Reg SHO
By Rod Young on 5/20/2006 6:50 AM

rpink,

You have just concluded from the obvious what in my opinion is the Achilles Heel of the entire scam. If you are serious, and you have the resources yours could be the model for other shareholder suits that would cripple the SEC, and force Congress (the real culprits and only body with any power) to end this.

Your NFI investment most likely has all of the prerequisites. The cause of action is the violation of your 5th Amendment property rights, a taking of your property by the SEC (the Government) when they grandfathered all pre-regulation SHO delivery fails. An administrative law judge has already given the argument standing in his decision to de-register the shares of Eagletech Communications. Judge Kelly’s Initial Decision stated, “Eagletech contends that…(by) ’grandfathering’ all pre-regulation SHO delivery failures…naked short sellers…will never have to purchase shares to cover their naked short positions. This policy argument should be addressed to the Commission.” And address it I did in my appeal of the decision to the five SEC commissioners. In his oral argument rebuttal before the SEC the enforcement attorney argued “If Eagletech were simply a shareholder it could argue the property rights of a shareholder.”

I’ve done the research! The Federal Tort Claims Act (1946) gives any citizen the right to bring an action against the government for an intentional tortuous act. The tort here is a Constitutional Tort, the willful taking of your property by “Grandfathering.” It didn’t take the government long to find the loophole, which would dismiss most future cases, the 1947 Elizabeth Dalehite, et al. v. United States. In 1953 the US Supreme court confirmed the Government’s discretionary exemption from the law.

Rule 17a of the 1934 Act which requires “prompt clearance and settlement of securities transactions”. In the case of Grandfathering the SEC has de-coupled the “clearing” and the “settlement” of Rule 17a. There is no rule of law which gives the SEC discretion to clear a trade (take the customer’s money and pay the brokers, clearing houses, and themselves their commissions) and then suspend the settlement portion of the trade (the delivery of the shares),

The case although filed in your Federal District Court, is plead using the laws of the state in which the tort occurred (your state). There is a plethora of Eminent Domain case law in every state to support an illegal 5th Amendment taking claim. The SEC has no discretionary defense of a Constitutional Tort nor is there any contract that has been breeched by the SEC that could be defended by the Tucker Act.

If fifty of you who understand that whining on message boards for the next five years will get you exactly what the last five years of whining got you, and you were to make the commitment, you could bring this house of cards tumbling down in short order. Roe v. Wade was a consolidation of just such disparate actions filed in several jurisdictions. Your actions could be no less historic.

If you think the SEC isn’t taking this argument seriously? Think again! No less than 50 people showed up to witness Eagletech Communication’s oral argument before the Commission 30-35 of them SEC attorneys. A security guard who escorting visitors in and out of the SEC auditorium commented that “he had never seen so many people attend an oral argument it’s usually just two or three.” Several visitors would only identify themselves as “an interested party.”

Lawyers feel free to chime in here! Anyone else who is sick and tired of being sick and tired it’s time for action! Find an attorney or file an action Pro-Se. I can be reached at ryoung@eagletech1.com.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By craig cunningham on 5/22/2006 4:48 AM
Count me in on suing them! We've got two people down, do I hear three? Nothing gets people's attention like a lawsuit. I am game.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By FreddoCazzo on 5/22/2006 5:31 AM
...................and my response to that Mr Young as follows:


(this has been kind of re written since i sent it out, but still awaiting a response from TheNation.com, The Honorable Judge Yang, and NPR!)

(.............i just finished reading "Journalism & Democracy" by Bill Moyers, and boy do I have some hot emotions about it all...but more specifically I cant stand to read what everyone knows, but is afraid to say. I am glad to know an entity such as yourself, with seemingly close ties to NPR, are not afraid to stand up for what is inherently right, and just. I implore you to give Mr. Moyers a raise, a BIG one. Maybe I can just send him a check, showing him my thanks, of course not to leave out TheNation, and NPR with significant contributions also, because I know you all care .I hope to show you my gratitude for sure. The politicians whom have received similar requests will not be seeing my vote come this election year, I guarantee it!!!))

Hello, and first of all, I thank you for both the future time you spend reading this, and affording me the pleasure of reaching out to someone whom I think actually gives a damn, and is willing to be a mover and a shaker for the general, unheard, stifled populace.

To start off with a brief description; I am a 33 year old American, disabled Veteran (Navy), student, and future mortician who is sick, and tired of witnessing the unstoppable, nefarious behavior of the seemingly untouchable Securities and Exchange Commission (SRO), Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (SRO), incalculable securities brokers, clearing agencies, pestilential hedge funds and, last, but certainly not least, the paid Mephistophelean shills who call themselves reporters, guilty of churning out hack-job media to help suppress a companies stock, watching it fall to bankruptive levels.......while all the aforementioned ignominious groups rape and pillage the average "joebud investor," and make TRILLIONS off of our collective backs!!!

I feel I have finally reached an honest group of individuals whom I hope will do a very loud, whistle-blowing piece on "Naked Short Selling." My emails to numerous congressmen, political officials, the Senate Banking Committee and other various supposed honest, important people have somehow fallen upon deaf ears, and guess what, I am exhausted. When a complaint to the North American Securities Administration Association (www.nasaa.org) similar to this one receives nothing but a canned response, who am I, the little "joebud investor" supposed to turn to? I am formally asking for your help. If I need to hand-write this request to make it more “formal,” and send it to The Nation, and NPR, so the better.

I could write another 1000 pages describing what a naked short sale is, (and how it is discernibly different from a short sale) or how it is about to cripple our markets, or how the secrecy surrounding this decade old behavior could possibly be the grand example of the age-old adage of the fox guarding the hen house, but I must refer you to a few sites, please, because they say it best. They say it better than anyone else, although they could surely use a helping hand from a stellar organization such as yours!!!!!!!

Bob O'Brian (an assumed identity) from www.thesanitycheck.com , Mark Faulk, www.thefaulkingtruth.com, www.NCANS.net, www.investigatethesec.com, Patrick Byrne, www.overstock.com, and Bud Burell, are all part of a grass roots effort to exercise our freedom of speech, and to further prohibit the S.E.C. and the D.T.C.C. from basically placing "grand-fathered naked short sales" under emminent domain policy. These enities who are supposed to protect and safeguard the average "joebud investor" are stealing our securities right from underneath us, not to mention basically printing as many as they want with the Stock Borrow Program, invented by no one else, but the D.T.C.C. This forefront can use your help, and I, (FC), am humbly begging you to help this grass roots effort, and help us return America to the America our forefathers often imagined.

I will leave you with an excerpt from a post on Bob O'Brian's blog written by the CEO of Eagletech1, Rod Young……..

.."I’ve done the research! The Federal Tort Claims Act (1946) gives any citizen the right to bring an action against the government for an intentional tortuous act. The tort here is a Constitutional Tort, the willful taking of your property by “Grandfathering.” It didn’t take the government long to find the loophole, which would dismiss most future cases, the 1947 Elizabeth Dalehite, et al. v. United States. In 1953 the US Supreme court confirmed the Government’s discretionary exemption from the law.

Rule 17a of the 1934 Act, which requires “prompt clearance and settlement of securities transactions”. In the case of Grandfathering the SEC has de-coupled the “clearing” and the “settlement” of Rule 17a. There is no rule of law which gives the SEC discretion to clear a trade (take the customer’s money and pay the brokers, clearing houses, and themselves their commissions) and then suspend the settlement portion of the trade (the delivery of the shares)."

We all need your help. Please.

Sincerely, and graciously,

(FC)


(p.s....I will be posting my half of this hopefully two-way correspondence on www.thesanitycheck.com, and if you would like me to leave your half of that correspondence out, I will gladly respect that choice. I am also sending this to U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. Thank you ALL for your time, and I hope this was not overkill, or too much to read. Thank you so much for your time.)


___________________________________________________________________
Once again, I want to thank Mr Bob O'Brian et al, for opening the forum up to us, and giving us the strength to carry on. Also, I would like to thank you Miss Ginger, for that link to the 2001 article in The Nation. It once again, motivated me to fire off some emails to people whom I think give a rat’s ass about this supposed non-existent NSS!!!!!!!!!!


May all you criminals burn in hell for what you have done to our country. I hope I have the pleasure of embalming, and, or cremating a handful of you all when the time comes, and let me tell you...Oh.... it inevitably comes! Luckily that wont be your saving grace you filthy pieces of shit!

(fyi, that last lil part and the most beautiful part to follow wasnt in any of the correspondence :) , I am just PISSED THE "F" OFF NOW, and so should everyone here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bobo is right; this is no time for slacking. We need to mount the heavy artillery for the final attack!!!

I have wrote my fair share of correspondence, and will continue to do so (no malarkey here!) until this NEFARIOUS behavior comes to a screeching halt! Anyone that uses this forum for research, or dd, or honest endeavors, please follow Bobo's advice, and start pounding our collective voices into the deaf and dumb who are unfortunately in control (seemingly across the board). Make them feel it. Make them smell it when they read it. Make them sweat like a big phat guy at a dungeons and dragons convention!!!

I have a lot to say, and can type it even faster....but I promise you I wont fill the pages without sustenance...oh no no no.......


.................still Freddo........even more Cazzo!

lets see what my "larking" around gets me?!
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By teacheric on 5/22/2006 5:55 AM
R3fman, perhaps this is how the shorts seems to have a "sympathetic ear" at the SEC when they want an investigation to occur on their latest victim. Perhaps x-SEC members are being asked to call the SEC as part of their job duties in order to get an informal investigation going on certain stocks that have been heavily shorted
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By ginger on 5/22/2006 6:57 AM
For the benefit of those who missed it here is journalist Bill Moyer's 2001 article referenced on Freddo's post...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010507/moyers

Journalism & Democracy ...

“ … During the past three and a half decades, I have learned that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is almost as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place. Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, to drive the people you work with nuts going over every last detail to make certain you've got it right, and then to take hit after unfair hit accusing you of having a "bias," or these days even a point of view, there's no use even in trying. You have to love it, and I do …”

And here's another...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031215/moyers
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By CMElec on 5/22/2006 7:38 AM
Mr. Bunny, "Tear Down that Wall".
Bravo EB, your vision to date has been 20/10. Keep eating those carrots and the bad guys will not be able to hide anywhere.... anywhere.
Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By gregcable2002 on 5/22/2006 6:51 PM
Back to Story - Help
Milberg Weiss gave top Democrats funding By Jeremy Pelofsky
1 hour, 3 minutes ago



Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the securities class action law firm indicted last week on fraud charges stemming from corporate lawsuits it filed, made large political contributions almost exclusively to Democrats since 1999, records show.

The firm and individuals there made $2.78 million in campaign donations to Democrats since 1999 compared to about $22,000 to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics.

Among the recipients were New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is a possible 2008 presidential candidate, senior New York Senator Charles Schumer and Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004.

On top of the $2.78 million, lawyers in the firm made contributions to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is the Democratic candidate for governor. Spitzer's office said on Monday that he plans to return $124,455 in contributions.

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Republicans would likely use the donations as ammunition in the November congressional elections and to blunt criticism about recent corruption scandals involving Republicans.

They will target "every individual Democrat in a competitive race in 2006 to begin with," Sabato said.

They also will mount "a P.R. offensive to make certain that this helps to balance the Democrats' charges of a culture of corruption that affects only Republicans," he said.

The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group, compiled information about the law firm's campaign contributions at the request of Reuters.

The Democratic National Committee was one of the primary beneficiaries, receiving almost half the money, $1.28 million. Most of that was from the firm itself and included $500,000 for the DNC's new headquarters.

"We are looking into the matter," said DNC spokeswoman Stacie Paxton.

Milberg Weiss and two partners, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, were indicted last week on 20 counts of perjury, bribery and obstruction of justice. They were accused of illegally paying clients to act as plaintiffs in lawsuits against corporations.

The firm and the two lawyers have called the charges unjust.

President George W. Bush campaigned to limit the kinds of lawsuits filed by Milberg Weiss, and the Republican-controlled Congress last year passed a law that seeks to curb class-action lawsuits by shifting them to federal courts from state courts and linking attorneys' fees with the payouts for clients.

Class-action cases allow plaintiffs to combine claims into one suit against a common defendant. Democrats have defended the suits as a way for consumers to hold multi-billion corporations accountable.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her political action committee received almost $24,000 in contributions from individuals at Milberg Weiss since 1999, according to the data.

"We will not be taking any action at this stage," Clinton's spokeswoman Ann Lewis said in an e-mail.

Schumer received $57,750 from individuals at the firm. His spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.

The House and Senate Democratic campaign committees received $440,365 and $350,650 respectively from the firm and individuals there since 1999, the data showed.

Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP once reached number six in 2002 on the Center for Responsive Politics top 20 list of law firms and lobbyists that were contributors to lawmakers and political parties since 1999.

President Bush received $2,000 during the 2004 campaign in individual donations within the firm but his Democratic rival, Sen. Kerry, received $54,900 in individual contributions, the Center found.

Republicans and Democrats have returned more than $200,000 in contributions from clients of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in January in a wide-ranging investigation into possible attempts to bribe lawmakers.

(Additional reporting by Herb Lash in New York)



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Re: Spitzer Returns Milberg Cash - Is Shocked That One Of His Larger Contributors Crooked By Sean on 5/22/2006 7:36 PM
Bobo and all, is it possible that some of the 45billion won by MW will be retrieved by some of the Corporations/Companies that were coerced (sp) into settling these classaction suits? It seems almost insignificant the 216/250 mill tat the US Attorney is going after.

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