thedailybeast.com - 12/10/2008
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Manhattan s U.S. attorney Michael Garcia may have chased Eliot Spitzer out of office, but he also ignored years of chicanery on Wall Street. So how did he pull down a multi-million dollar job in private practice? Michael J. Garcia is leaving his post as U.S. attorney in Manhattan to take up a $3 ...
correntewire.com - 12/15/2008
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correntewire.com —
A throwaway paragraph in Spiky's scoop : [Under
the "Stellar Wind" program,] NSA was also able to...
access, for the first time, massive volumes of personal financial records—such as credit-card transactions, wire transfers and bank withdrawals—that ...
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Warrantless surveillance "Stellar Wind" data took down ...
nydailynews.com - 12/17/2008
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nydailynews.com —
The latest twist in ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer's attempt
at a fast-track resurrection: He still has his mailing...
list, and he's putting it to use. _Device Memory_home_user_pictures_IMG00223 The disgraced governor, who has been trying to rehab his profile of ...
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motherjones.com - 12/4/2008
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motherjones.com —
It's easy to snicker at Slate magazine for
signing up Eliot Spitzer, former New York governor and...
onetime john, as a regular columnist. But judging from Spitzer's first outing, it was a master stroke. The manner in which Spitzer crashed and ...
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Why Obama Should Replace Larry Summers With Eliot Spitzer
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... The Daily Beast: Manhattan’s U.S. attorney Michael Garcia may have chased Eliot Spitzer out of office, but he also ignored years of chicanery on Wall Street. So how did he pull down a multi-million dollar job in private practice? ...
Where's the real corruption?
Rising Hegemon —
The U.S. Attorney that brought down Elliot Spitzer, who as a public attorney aggressively pursued fraud, managed to ignore the greatest defrauders in history -- but managed to successfully attack someone for a knob-job or two. Meet Michael Garcia, aka Ken Starr, Jr.: * leaving his post as U.S. attorney in Manhattan to take up a $3 to 4 million per annum partnership at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. * Garcia’s sudden move to Kirkland & Ellis was engineered by executive committee member Jay Lefkowitz—a high-powered neoconservative who authored President ...
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