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Prominent civil rights attorney and Harvard Law School grad Harvey A. Silverglate hosted a dinner discussion in Dunster last night on free speech and student rights in the age of the war on terror, while emphasizing reform of Harvard’s Administrative Board...
...extracted at least $5 billion in penalties from financial firms, according to Masters.) In December 2005, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, who was then chairing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., alleged that Spitzer tried to bully him after Whitehead wrote a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed criticizing the attorney general's zealotry: "I will be coming after you," Spitzer allegedly told Whitehead, who said he immediately took notes of the conversation. "You will pay dearly for what you have done." (Spitzer's communications director Darren Dopp, who later left the administration under an ethics cloud, denied Whitehead's account...
...Sheinkopf recalls a sad moment from Spitzer's 1998 attorney general campaign: Spitzer had been charged with improperly using his father's money to help finance his career. He denied the truth until the last possible moment, when he finally admitted that his dad made it possible for him to lend his campaign millions. "I looked over and saw this man - thin, in shirtsleeves with frayed cuffs, holding himself in the corner," Sheinkopf says. "I thought, This must be the loneliest man on the planet. And in fact, he turned...
...charge of "quality assurance" records for CCA prisons across the U.S. He says that in 2005, after CCA found itself embarrassed on several occasions by the public release of internal records to government agencies, Puryear mandated that detailed, raw reports on prison shortcomings carry a blanket assertion of "attorney-client privilege," thus forbidding their release without his written consent. From then on, Jones says, the audits delivered to agencies were filled with increasingly vague performance measures. "If the wrong party found out that a facility's operations scored low in an audit, then CCA could be subject to litigation, fines...
Companies often try to show their best face to customers, and safeguard internal records with "attorney-client privilege." But according to Stephen Gillers, a leading expert on legal ethics at New York University, CCA's use of that privilege seems like "a wholesale, possibly overreaching claim," similiar to the blanket assertions of major tobacco companies that tried to keep damaging internal documents from public view. Those assertions of privilege have been rejected by federal judges as an attempt to improperly conceal their internal data on the dangers of smoking from customers, the courts and legal adversaries. CCA could also...