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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/24/2009
Feds: Former US Prosecutor Helped Rub Out Witnesses For Gangster Clients, Ran Drugs And Call-Girls
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From federal prosecutor to accused violent gangster, pimp, and drug-dealer...That's the unusual career trajectory taken, say the Feds, by Paul Bergrin, who was indicted earlier this month in a 39-count racketeering indictment. In a drama that could have been made for HBO, Bergrin -- a ...

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Talking Points Memo:  Ripped From the Scripts

Above the Law:  Non-Sequiturs 11.24.09

The Sideshow:  But Monopoly is so much fun I'd hate to blow the game

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Ripped From the Scripts
Talking Points Memo — ... I'm used to seeing Law & Order plots that come right from recent news headlines. But this may be the first time that I saw the Law & Order episode first and only later found out about the real life story. The real story is about Paul Bergrin, a former prosecutor in the New Jersey US Attorneys office who apparently went from a life of prosecuting criminals to defending them and then decided to just cut out the middle man and become one himself. He's now been indicted on multiple counts involving drug dealing, prostitution, the murder of two witnesses ...

Non-Sequiturs 11.24.09
Above the Law — ... story: "Why Lawyers Make So Much Money." Staff writer Marisa Kashino, formerly of the National Law Journal, names D.C.'s 30 top lawyers and writes about what it takes to make partner these days. Check it out on newsstands now. [Washingtonian Magazine] * One website is tracking lateral hiring in the legal world. [Legal Blog Watch] * Black taco? [Gothamist] * I'd make a joke about ATL favorite Paul Bergrin, but I'm afraid of him. [TPM Muckracker / Talking Points Memo] * Maybe Justice Scalia can't separate his ...

But Monopoly is so much fun I'd hate to blow the game
The Sideshow — ... buy crappy health insurance because four senators want to preserve their Daschle retirement option is not good policy or good politics." Because, as McJoan says, "The problem is, anything that works to make these guys happy isn't going to be real reform." And efforts to make them happy have already made the so-called "public option" into a pile of crap. I have no problem making an argument against that. When comparing the government to the Mafia isn't even hyperbole. Krugman thinks the administration listens to Wall Street ...