Here
is her tangled story, an iceberg-tip view of the Rep. Jerry Lewis
scandals which she was investigating as a US Attorney, and the
treacherous firm of Bush Crime Family consigliere in Los Angeles who serve as Defense Council for Rep. Lewis, the same firm where Yang currently receives her blood-money.
We will soon enough get to her official bio from the firm that paid
her $1.5 million, Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles--the same firm that,
coincidentally enough, was defending Rep. Jerry Lewis of California. Let
me say that again so there is no confusion: She was in charge of the
case against Rep. Jerry Lewis. He is being defended against these
charges by Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles. Ms Yang received $1.5 million
from the firm defending Rep. Lewis, Gibson Dunn, to leave the Justice
Department where she was prosecuting Rep. Lewis. And,
remarkably, this is the second time that Jerry Lewis has hired a former
US Attorney to handle his defense. Thanks to the fine work of TPMuckracker from June 2006, we find that Lewis did the same thing with Robert Bonner, a member in good-standing of the Bush Crime Family since Daddy Bush made Bonner his Drug Czar in the 1990s through the present!
His lead lawyer is Robert Bonner, a man with a long, impressive CV
-- featuring one clincher: Bonner used to run the U.S. Attorney's
Office that's now investigating Lewis.
Who better to handle an investigation concerning the revolving door
between Lewis' office and that of his lobbyist pal Bill Lowery than a
man who's switched sides himself?
Bonner headed up the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District
of California from 1984 through 1989 before he went on to serve as a
judge in that district. That same office is conducting the
investigation of Lewis.
Mr Bonner is a partner at Gibson Dunn in their Los Angeles office in the same practice group as Ms Yang
where he has recently been called to do some work for the Bush Crime
Family. Once you are in, you only get out at death. But, the money is
good, if you can stand it: In 2006, Rep. Lewis rang up a $971,000 legal bill; that sort of money adds up after a few years.
From 2003 through December 2005, Mr. Bonner served as the first
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency of the
Department of Homeland Security responsible for managing, controlling
and securing the United States' borders, while facilitating global
trade and travel.
Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Bonner created the
unprecedented Container Security Initiative (CSI) and the Customs-Trade
Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) – both continue to revolutionize
the security and more efficient movement of trade around the world.
At the same time Mr. Bonner focused on securing international
supply chains from the terrorist threat, he also pursued and
implemented a national border control strategy to secure America’s
borders. This strategy consists of a centralized command
structure, rapid response capability, and a defense-in-depth, while
relying upon highly-trained personnel, strengthened infrastructure and
improved technology.
This is how the San Bernardino County Sun announced it on June 13, 2006:
Robert Bonner, former head of the U.S. Attorney's Office
Central District of California, leads a group of attorneys that include
former Santa Monica congressman Mel Levine, former federal Solicitor
General Ted Olson and Joe Warin of the Los Angeles- based firm Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Lewis' new legal team was confirmed Thursday by another new
Lewis hire, spokeswoman Barbara Comstock, a former Department of
Justice spokeswoman. Comstock also worked for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby,
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.
Lewis and his ties to lobbyist and former San Diego congressman Bill
Lowery are part of a federal criminal investigation that has reached
San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Numerous local government
agencies have been subpoenaed for records regarding Lewis and lobbying
firm Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White.
Lewis, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, which
oversees $900 billion in federal outlays, has not been charged with any
crimes or wrongdoing.
Bonner's past clients include former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, who served three years in federal prison for tax evasion.
The Gibson Dunn directory also lists another former California US Attorney
in the same group as Bonner, Douglas Fuchs. Mr Fuchs worked for Ms Yang
as an assistant to the US Attorney. Small world, isn't it? Six
months after Yang gets hired, the firm hires her assistant (Los Angeles Times, 1.5.07 "He follows his former boss, former U.S. Atty. Debra Yang, who was hired by the Los Angeles law firm last fall.").
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fuchs was an Assistant U.S. Attorney
for the Central District of California from 2000 to 2006, serving as
Deputy Chief of the Major Frauds Section since 2005.
Fast forward to six weeks prior to Attorney Lam being fired in San Diego, and the disappearance of Ms Yang:
About Debra Wong Yang
In May 2002, Yang was appointed by President Bush to be the first
Asian-American woman to serve as a United States Attorney. As
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Yang oversaw
approximately 260 Assistant U.S. Attorneys who litigate criminal,
civil and tax matters in U.S. District Court. During her first
year in office, her staff filed 483 cases of business fraud, for the
first time surpassing the historically busier New York U.S. Attorney’s
Office.
During her tenure as U.S. Attorney, Yang was selected to serve on
President Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Force and on the Department of
Justice’s Intellectual Property Task Force. She was appointed by
the Attorney General to sit on the Attorney General’s Advisory
Committee, the Intellectual Property Task Force and selected to chair
the U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Cyber/Intellectual
Property and the Committee on Civil Rights. In 2005, she received
the President’s Award for Distinguished Leadership for Women in Federal
Law Enforcement.
...
Yang received her law degree from Boston College Law School in 1985
and her bachelor’s degree from Pitzer College in 1981. She is a
former law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Lew.
Now, an interesting twist on the matter is whether the Bush Crime
Family worked with Gibson Dunn by having them "make her an offer she
can't refuse". Only investigations by the Judiciary Committee will find
answers to those questions. And, this can only happen if the
investigation is expanded from those that were fired, to those that
remained or resigned.
Here is her story in brief from a blogger named David Dayen at his D-Day Blog.
Here's the real scoop: In May 2006, Debra Wong Yang was beginning
work on the investigation of Rep. Jerry Lewis, the former chair of the
House Appropriations Committee who was being scrutinized over handing
out defense earmarks to political friends. Within a few months, Yang resigned... to work for the law firm representing Lewis.
About five months before Yang's departure her office had opened an investigation into ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a lobbyist
[citation added by risser]. When Yang left her U.S. attorney's job she
went to work for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the firm where Lewis'
legal team works, but government rules required that she recuse herself
from that case or any other she was involved with while a government
prosecutor.
The Lewis case is connected to the ongoing corruption investigation
in San Diego that began with the 2005 conviction of former GOP Rep.
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who is serving jail time for bribery. Former
U.S. attorney Carol Lam in San Diego, who was among those dismissed
last year, was prosecuting that case. Feinstein contends that Lam's
dismissal had something to do with the her role in the Cunningham
investigation, though the Justice Department denies it.
Mr Dayen adds another interesting tidbit:
Not only that, Yang got $1.5 million dollars to go to work
for Gibson Dunn. Ted Olson, the former US Solicitor General, works
there too. And the Assistant US Attorney for LA, Douglas Fuchs, joined
her.
Ms Wang was asked whether she might have been a target and gave her story to The Hill:
Wong Yang was heading up the investigation into Rep. Jerry Lewis’s
(R-Calif.) ties to a lobbying firm and the millions of dollars in
contracts the firm’s clients received from Congress. Wong Yang, the
first Asian-American woman to serve as a U.S. attorney, left her post
with Justice to become a partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, the law
firm representing Lewis. She will co-chair the firm’s crisis-management
practice group, along with Washington, D.C., partner Theodore B. Olson, a former Bush administration solicitor general.
Wong Yang said her departure was a personal decision based on
financial concerns and the fact that she is a single mother, and had
nothing to do with the firings of other U.S. attorneys. She also said her
departure would not affect the case against Lewis in any way, noting
that the Justice Department said it would have allowed her to stay in
the position "as long as I wanted to."
"The investigation [into Lewis] would never be delayed or affected
in any way because of my departure," she said. "We had 260 attorneys in
that office."
She said that she had been looking for a more lucrative position in
the private sector for months and that a longtime friend, Nick Hanna in
the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher — not Olson or
anyone else with close ties to the Bush administration — first
contacted her about the position. She said she turned down a more
lucrative offer from another firm to take the job at Gibson, Dunn and
Crutcher.
BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! AND MORE BULLSHIT!
Do you think in your wildest imagination that the firm that defends
Rep. Jerry Lewis will hear nothing of the US case against him by the
lead attorney on the investigation? In a perfect world, an ethical
attorney could block herself off from the attorneys handling the case
at Gibson Dunn. Are we expected to believe that Ms Yang's hiring was
not prompted by the Bush Crime Family and two of their consigliere at
Gibson Dunn: Ted Olson and Robert Bonner?
I don't buy it for a second... Sorry, but the Bush Crime
Family does not deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to
acting ethically.
Both Randy "felon" Cunningham and Rep. Jerry Lewis each took kickbacks a company called MZM
that company, in another Bush Crime Family coincidence, furnished one
of Dick Cheney’s offices for $140,000. Here is the coincidence: MZM
then gave Cunningham a $140.000 yacht.
This from David Corn of the Nation:
In that note to Joshua Bolten, President Bush's chief of staff,
Waxman requested information about a $140,000 contract the White House
awarded in July 2002 to MZM, Inc. This was Mitchell Wade's company.
He's the (now former-) military contractor who paid more than $1
million in bribes to Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham,
who's in jail for having accepted these and other bribes in return for
steering federal contracts to Wade and Brent Wilkes, another defense
contractor. (Wade pleaded guilty; Wilkes has not.) What's intriguing
about the contract Wade received from the White House is that its
amount equals the price Wade paid in August 2002 to buy the Duke-Stir,
the yacht Cunningham lived (and partied) on in Washington. According to
the sentencing recommendation memo in Cunningham's case, Cunningham
himself negotiated the $140,000 purchase price of the boat in the
summer of 2002. This raises the intriguing possibility that Wade that
summer needed money to buy Cunningham the yacht and--presto--a White
House contract materialized.
Furthermore, an investigation must begin on whether the Bush
Crime Family was in any way complicit in the hiring of Ms Yang, whether
any money changed hands from the Bush Crime Family to Gibson Dunn,
and/or from Rep. Jerry Lewis to Gibson Dunn to purchase the lead
prosecutor from the government. The Attorney General, the former
Solicitor General Ted Olson, partners from Gibson Dunn, Robert Bonner,
and Ms Yang and Mr Hanna must be subpoenaed immediately.
Tags: Debra Wong Yang, Jerry Lewis, Duke Cunningham, Theodore B.
Olson, MZM, Dick Cheney, Scotter Libby, Heidi Fleiss, Brent Wilkes,
Robert Bonner, Bush Crime Family, G.W. Bush, Organized Crime, Alberto
Gonzales
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