Longtime Overlawyered favorite Geoffrey Fieger, a fixture in Michigan politics and personal injury law for many years, and his law partner Vernon (Ven) Johnson were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of unlawfully “conspiring to make more than $125,000 in illegal contributions to presidential candidate John Edwards’ 2004 campaign”. Fieger, who’s being represented by Gerry Spence, says it’s all a plot by Republicans in the U.S. Department of Justice. (Oakland Press; Detroit News, more; Detroit Free Press, more)(& Pattis).
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If you live in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, as I do, you’ve probably had enough of Feiger’s smug, attention grabbing, grandstanding ass.
I got a jury questionnaire recently and now my dream is to be seated in the box at his inquisition. Oh, that and hitting the $200-plus million Mega Millions lottery game.
He didn’t deny that he rewarded his law firm’s employees for contributing to the Edwards campaign, but insisted that no federal statute prohibits that practice.
“If reimbursement is a crime, then how could you give money to your wife, or your children, after they’d donated to a presidential campaign?” he asked rhetorically. “But nobody’s ever been prosecuted successfully for that, because it’s not a crime. They made up a law!”
Hmm, did he just admit that he gave money to other people so they would donate said money to a candidate? Isn’t that exactly what he is charged with? Did he just confess?
“They made up a law!” Well, yeah, that’s what they do…and once a law is made up you have to follow it until it is struck down or repealed, or be aware that you may risk facing some kind of consequences. I didn’t go to law school but I know that much about it.
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