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Date: May 11, 2007 10:23:10 PM PDT
Subject: Giuliani Would Make a Worst President than Bush!!
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*Giuliani Would Make a Worst President than Bush*
By Paul Craig Roberts
05/11/07
"ICH" -- Republican magazines have begun their pimp operations for
the G.O.P.'s 2008 presidential candidates.
In a recent issue of National Review, Jennifer Rubin, described as
"a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.," pumps up Rudolph Giuliani
as "America's mayor" and "America's prosecutor."
Giuliani is a media creation. Giuliani was unknown until in search
of name recognition he staged a stormtrooper assault on the
financial firm Princeton/ Newport involving fifty federal marshals
outfitted with automatic weapons and bullet proof vests. On
another occasion he had two New York investment bankers hauled off
their trading floor in handcuffs.
Giuliani's victims had done nothing and were exonerated. But
Giuliani's media stunts served to turn public sentiment against
white-collar defendants.
Giuliani once bragged that by giving negative treatment to his
targets, "the media does the job for me." Giuliani certainly had
no difficulty manipulating Wall Street Journal reporters James B.
Stewart, Daniel Hertzberg, and Laurie Cohen or "The Predators'
Ball" author Connie Bruck. Milken, who had done nothing except
make a lot of money by proving Wall Street wrong about non-
investment grade bonds, was branded the "Cosa Nostra of the
securities world."
Milken's "junk bonds" financed such household names as CNN, Barnes
& Noble, Stone Container Corporation, Time-Warner, Safeway, and
Mattel. Milken provided capital to companies with promising futures
that lacked investment-grade credit rankings. Milken operated out
of Los Angeles, not Wall Street. His earnings and those of his
upstart firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert, aroused envy and hatred among
the Wall Street hot shots. Milken failed to use his money to
purchase political protection in Washington. Instead, he gave his
money to organizations that help poor black children.
Milken was set up perfectly for an ambitious and unscrupulous
prosecutor like Giuliani.
Giuliani leaked to his media pimps that a 98-count indictment was
coming down against Milken. As Milken had done nothing and
Giuliani had no case against him, Giuliani's strategy was to coerce
Milken into a plea bargain. When Milken failed to send his
attorneys to work out a plea arrangement, Giuliani used Laurie
Cohen to report eighteen times in the Wall Street Journal that
Milken would imminently face an expanded superseding indictment of
between 160 and 300 counts.
To increase the pressure on Milken, prosecutors threatened to
indict Milken’s younger brother, Lowell, unless Milken made a plea
deal. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh quipped to his
deputies: "A brother for a brother." Afterwards, Giuliani's
assistant U.S. attorney, John Carroll, told Seton Hall Law School
students in April 1992 that Lowell Milken was a "sort of ready chip
in the negotiations." Giuliani even went so far as to send F.B.I.
agents to hound Milken's 92-year-old grandfather.
Milken's attorneys concluded that Giuliani, lacking any case, was
far out on a limb and desperate for a face-saving plea. They
worked out a plea to six minor technical offenses that had never
carried any prison time. But Giuliani was determined to have his
victim, and Milken was double-crossed by sentencing judge, Kimba
"Bimbo" Wood, and spent two years of his life in prison.
Giuliani's assistant U.S. attorney John Carroll later bragged to
Seton Hall Law students that in the Milken case "we're guilty of
criminalizing technical offenses... Many of the prosecution
theories we used were novel. Many of the statutes that we charged
under ... hadn’t been charged as crimes before. ... We're looking
to find the next areas of conduct that meets any sort of statutory
definition of what criminal conduct is."
It is a damning indication of the collapse of American law that an
assistant U.S. attorney can be well received when he brags to law
school students that federal prosecutors frame Americans with novel
interpretations that create ex post facto law and violate mens rea
-- no crime without intent -- the foundation of the Anglo-American
legal system.
In his book, "Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and
His Financial Empire," University of Chicago law professor and dean
Daniel Fischel proves Milken's innocence. But when prosecutors are
corrupt, innocence is no protection.
Giuliani's crimes were not limited to Milken and Princeton/Newport.
After investigating, I concluded that Giuliani framed Leona
Helmsley with the suborned perjury of one of Helmsley's
accountants, whose own infraction in helping to defraud the Miller
Brewing Company was dropped in exchange for false witness against
Helmsley.
I wrote about Helmsley’s frame-up in National Review, and my story
was picked up by one of the TV shows of the era. Both Alan
Dershowitz and Robert Bork share my conviction that Helmsley was
framed with suborned perjury.
Today, National Review is a Giuliani partisan, as is the editorial
page of the Wall Street Journal. During Giuliani's "white-collar
crime heyday," the Wall Street Journal editorial page was busy
exposing Giuliani's duplicity and misuse of the media to create
cases against innocent targets.
Giuliani rode his prosecutions of the rich to the N.Y.C. mayoralty,
just as he rode 9/11 to become a G.O.P. presidential candidate.
Giuliani's career never served justice; it served his personal
ambition, his ego. That a person so short on integrity could become
a candidate for president is a damning indictment of the U.S.
political system.
[The account of Giuliani's prosecution of Milken comes from my book
with Lawrence Stratton, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions."]
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