I started out calling everyone of the Judiciary Committee. Leahy's office was the last one I called and the person I spoke with asked me to send them an email. Below is the email I sent. This is very important information and I have not heard anything about this, not in the news, not on DU, nowhere. I could have missed it being posted here, but if I did then oops. This info needs to get out there, it needs to have the spotlight shined on it to keep this nominee just that a nominee.
Dear Honorable Sen. Leahy,
Please consider this information before confirming Michael Mukasey as the United States Attorney General. I have called everyone on the Senate Judiciary committee (Dems only of course) to get this info out there. I haven't heard much about it anywhere else. While I know that Water-boarding is a serious concern, I find this info just as concerning.
Marc Mukasey, the son of Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey, has been tasked by Rudy Giuliani to “to keep an eye on” former NYPD police commissioner Bernard Kerik’s criminal investigation.
Earlier this month, media reports said that federal prosecutors were prepared to file charges against Kerik “that will likely include allegations of bribery, tax fraud and obstruction of justice.” Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, pleaded guilty last year to two misdemeanor charges of taking payments from the same company that is alleged to have bribed him.
More @ link
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/22/mukase... /
Can you imagine someone blocking witnesses from testifying to protect another criminal? I mean come on. When will it ever end?
This is what concerns me the most:
Mr. Mukasey's clients frequently retain him for his trial skills. He has tried numerous criminal cases involving allegations of securities fraud, investment advisory fraud, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, money laundering, RICO and murder. He has also practiced extensively before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Recently, Mr. Mukasey has been successful in persuading Department of Justice prosecutors to close an antitrust investigation against a major corporation without the filing of charges, and to drop securities fraud and mail fraud investigations of his business clients.
Do we really need more cronyism at the DOJ???
Hasn't the DOJ suffered enough at the hands of the Bush regime???
I can just see it now Marc spending so much time at the DOJ and getting Daddy to block investigations concerning his clients.
The Department of Justice is in shambles because of the Bush regime politicizing it.
Senator Leahy you have the power to block his confirmation. Please help put this country back on the right track. This has got to stop. We need real leadership at the DOJ. We don't need more of the cronyism that has wrecked our great nation. You know as well as I and the rest of us non sleepers that our country is in dire straights and we need your leadership to help set the country back on the right track, especially within the DOJ.
Thank you for your service and thank you for your time.
Best Regards,If you DUers think it is worthy of merit then help spread the word far and wide.
