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Cornyn bill would shine needed light on legal ethics
The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner Jun 10, 2008 12:00 AM (558 days ago)WASHINGTON Give U.S. Sen. John Cornyn credit. The Texas Republican stepped into a breach where lesser lawmakers are too compromised to tread. Here’s the situation: When Enron and WorldCom were caught in fraudulent behavior, congressmen held high-profile hearings and rushed to draft bills to fix what they described as widespread corruption in the business world. But when the nation’s three most famous class-action plaintiffs’ lawyers— Bill Lerach, Melvyn Weiss and Dickie Scruggs — were sentenced to jail this spring for multiple felonious federal offenses, Congress was strangely silent, even though Lerach has repeatedly described his criminal behavior as “industry practice.”
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