Rod Rosenstein was kept out Pulitzer Prize Winning book

Started by rmstock, July 31, 2017, 07:21:44 PM

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rmstock

Jesse Eisinger, seems to have left out the name of Assistant Attorney
general Rod Rosentein in his winning book "The Chickenshit Club, Why
the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives". Accidentally or
on purpose remains unknown for now. Chapter Seven, "KPMG DESTROYS CAREERS",
starts of like this :

  "Chapter Seven
   
   KPMG DESTROYS CAREERS
   
   ON JUNE 27, 2006, JUSTIN weddle was in his office on the sixth floor of
   One St. Andrew's Plaza in southern Manhattan when he learned that a
   judge had called him a liar.
   
   Weddle, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York,
   read the ruling that had just come down from United States District
   Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. He had his door closed, thank goodness. He
   couldn't face anyone.  Was everyone in the entire Southern District
   reading this decision right now?  He was a member of the special club
   of Southern District criminal prosecutors.  Weddle had been there when
   Jim Comey had given his famous Chickenshit Club speech. He and his
   colleagues did the right things in the right way for the right reasons.
   Upstanding, he never even liked practical jokes. He hated April Fools'
   Day. He tried not to be self-righteous about it because he understood
   that nobody could tell the truth all the time, but he had become a
   lawyer to uphold -- okay, this idea was corny, but Weddle believed it --
   truth and justice. With a ready smile, pug nose, and blond hair, the
   assistant US attorney looked more like a gregarious schoolboy than one
   of those prosecutorial cowboys who did what needed to be done to get
   the bad guys. Nobody would mistake him for a bully.
   [ ... ]
   The KPMG case, which Weddle would say was bigger than Enron, began to
   implode. [ ... ]"


Which reads as if KMPG, the global accounting firm from Dutch origin,
was, or even, is more powerful in the cosmopolitan Southern Legal
District of New York than Enron, Arthur Anderson, AIG etc.  and the
rest of the bunch together. In 2004 in the aftermath of the Enron 
debacle where accounting firm Arthur Anderson was totally wiped out,
KMPG hired hotshot Attorney Robert S. Bennet, who successfully had
defended Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal :

  "MR. BENNETT GOES TO WASHINGTON
   [ ... ]
   The New York prosecutors didn't appreciate that Bennett, the Washington
   power broker, was working hard in the capital. He requested a meeting
   with James Comey, who had been elevated to deputy attorney general.
   When Bob Fiske requested a meeting with Larry Thompson on the Andersen
   matter, Thompson had refused. By contrast, Comey, who not so long ago
   had talked so tough as a US attorney in the Southern District, agreed
   to the meeting.  Finally, on May 5, 2005, in anticipation of meeting
   with Comey, KPMG cut off former chairman Stein's attorney's fees. The
   firm also terminated a consulting agreement it had with Stein under his
   severance package. Skadden thought it would help with its pitch to the
   government.
   On June 13, 2005, KPMG and Skadden met with Comey.10 Bennett told the
   officials that KPMG couldn't afford an indictment or guilty plea.
   [ ... ]
   10. Lynnley Browning, "Documents Show KPMG Secretly Met Prosecutors,"
       New York Times, February 9, 2015,
       www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/business/06kpmg.html. "


The July 2007 NY Times article, mentioned in the book-notes of the
Pulitzer Prize winning book, ends as follows :

  "[ ... ]
   On June 13, 2005, KPMG lawyers and executives met with the deputy
   attorney general, James B. Comey, and federal prosecutors. It was a
   highly unusual meeting, Mr. Comey said, according to the notes, adding
   that he had never met with outside lawyers for a firm facing indictment.
   
   Mr. Barloon's notes of that meeting show that Mr. Bennett began by
   quietly but intensely asking Mr. Comey not to indict KPMG. "If we go
   under, that will disrupt not only KPMG clients but also the national
   economy," Mr. Bennett argued.
   
   Mr. Comey countered that the wrongdoing at KPMG "went everywhere -- up,
   down, sideways -- at least in the tax business," and asked Mr. Bennett
   if the firm had considering pleading guilty and spinning off its tax
   practice. Mr. Bennett said that the firm had considered but rejected
   such an idea.
 
   Rod Rosenstein, the deputy assistant attorney general, who was at the
   meeting, asked whether the Justice Department was "setting a precedent
   that we can't prosecute somebody if they come and clean everything up."
   
   But earlier in the meeting, Mr. Bennett said that "what was really
   precedent-setting about the case was the conditioning of the payment of
   legal fees on cooperation. We said we'd pressure -- although we didn't
   use that word -- our employees to cooperate."
   
   The notes quote him later as saying "what played out" was "a level of
   cooperation that is rarely done."

   ---
   A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C3 of the New
   York edition with the headline: Documents Show KPMG Secretly Met
   Prosecutors. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

yankeedoodle

Quote from: rmstock on July 31, 2017, 07:21:44 PM
Jesse Eisinger, seems to have left out the name of Assistant Attorney
general Rod Rosentein in his winning book "The Chickenshit Club,

[...]

   Rod Rosenstein, the deputy assistant attorney general, who was at the
   meeting, asked whether the Justice Department was "setting a precedent
   that we can't prosecute somebody if they come and clean everything up."

Sounds like Rosenstein is the right man to take down shit-for-brains shabbos goy Donnie-boy. 

rmstock

QuoteRod Rosenstein, the deputy assistant attorney general, who was at the
   meeting, asked whether the Justice Department was "setting a precedent
   that we can't prosecute somebody if they come and clean everything up."
   
   But earlier in the meeting, Mr. Bennett said that "what was really
   precedent-setting about the case was the conditioning of the payment of
   legal fees on cooperation. We said we'd pressure -- although we didn't
   use that word -- our employees to cooperate."
   
   The notes quote him later as saying "what played out" was "a level of
   cooperation that is rarely done."

I'm not so sure if Rosenstein is the man who can take down Trump. Look
what Mr. Bennett says in the next line : "what was really
precedent-setting about the case was the conditioning of the payment of
legal fees on cooperation. We said we'd pressure -- although we didn't
use that word -- our employees to cooperate." This smells as if
financial bribery was an integral part of this meeting which was kept
in secret. I'm not telling Rosenstein has accepted money from KPMG, but
he made sure not to tell more, as what was written down inside the
notorious Comey' Notes of that meeting.  And most important, of what
was said and agreed upon in this secret meeting and which is explicitly
not mentioned inside the notes, Rod Rosenstein knows all about.

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778