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WHo IS LoReTTa LYNCH?
Conservative news site Breitbart on Saturday criticized President Obama's nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, over her involvement in the Whitewater corruption investigation.
There's just one hitch: the Loretta Lynch Obama nominated to his cabinet and the Loretta Lynch who served as one of Bill Clinton's defense attorneys during the Whitewater probe are two entirely different people.
Introducing the real Loretta Lynch...
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The following comes courtesy of Reader Supported News:
The Republican Senate Will Love Loretta Lynch
09 November 14
fter the news broke of Eric Holder’s departure from the DOJ, I called on President Obama to nominate Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, based on his exemplary record of defending consumers and citizens from predatory banks, big oil, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. My more cynical readers commented that Obama was too much of a corporatist to nominate Hood, and that whoever Holder’s successor would be, they would be completely subservient to the banks. And after the news of Lynch’s nomination and looking into her past, I can say with confidence that those readers were right.
Right after graduating from law school, Lynch went to work as a litigation assistant for the prestigious New York-based law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel between 1984 and 1990. CG&R attorneys represented some of the more notorious figures behind the Savings and Loan Scandal of the 1980s and 1990s, including a man who had personal dealings with Charles Keating. In its profile of Lynch, the DOJ’s own website describes her as someone with extensive experience in “white collar criminal defense.” It’s very likely that Lynch went from Harvard straight to defending some of the worst financial criminals the country had ever seen at the time. On CG&R’s website, the “securities litigation and white collar defense” section describes the kind of crooks the firm defends:
Recent matters include the alleged manipulation of the US Dollar London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) and multi-billion dollar federal and state court class and individual actions involving subprime and structured finance products.… We have handled some of the most significant investigations arising from existing and emerging regulation in the white collar arena, including for some of the largest transnational companies and banks as well as the largest securities rating agency.… Our securities litigation and white collar defense practice is top-ranked by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation.
Lynch basically got her first six years of white collar criminal defense experience working at the firm that is currently responsible for keeping the bankers behind the great subprime mortgage grift out of jail. CG&R is also defending the financial institutions that jacked up interest rates on everything from student loans to home loans out of greedy self-interest. They even defended the agencies that knowingly rated worthless mortgage-backed securities as AAA, setting up millions to lose their retirement savings in a snap.
After six years of exemplary work at this soulless law firm, Lynch walked through the revolving door to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern district of New York, which plays a major part in investigating financial crimes. She gradually worked her way up the ladder, going from an assistant U.S. attorney in 1990 to becoming the unit’s Deputy Chief of General Crimes in 1993. She was chief of the office’s Long Island division by 1998, and was tapped as U.S. Attorney by June of 1999, where she remained until 2001. Then, Lynch walked back through the revolving door to return to defending the worst of America’s worst corporate criminals.
Lynch couldn’t wait to get started at the Hogan & Hartson law firm (now known as Hogan Lovells). Interestingly enough, Lynch was a partner at Hogan, working alongside John Roberts, the current chief justice of what is the most corporate-friendly Supreme Court in decades. Hogan’s website doesn’t list its past clients, but you can get a pretty good idea by visiting the site’s “financial institutions” section:
We represent banks, brokers, insurers, asset managers, investment funds, regulators, and other market participants, large and small, on the full range of legal services. This includes corporate, competition, employment, finance, IT, intellectual property, litigation, pensions, real estate and tax.
As soon as Lynch joined Hogan in 2002, she interrupted her own vacation, came to the office without pay and immediately got to work defending an Arthur Andersen partner who had helped cook the books for Enron. From 2003 to 2005, Lynch sat on the board of the New York Federal Reserve, working directly under future U.S. Treasury secretary Tim Geithner. The New York Fed has been widely documented for its incestuous relationships with the big Wall Street banks it’s supposed to regulate. The revolving door spun once again in 2010, when President Obama appointed Lynch to her old job as U.S. Attorney of New York’s Eastern District.
Drawing on her past experience of standing up for white collar crooks, Lynch has spent the last four years treating big banks with kid gloves. Under Lynch’s oversight, the U.S. government allowed HSBC to pay a fine that amounted to five weeks of profit for the bank after they admitted to laundering $800 million for Mexican drug cartels. Lynch was also responsible for Citibank paying a $7 billion settlement-- $3.8 billion of which was later billed to U.S. taxpayers – rather than going to jail over misleading millions of investors about mortgage-backed securities that were doomed to fail.
There’s really no question about whether or not Lynch will survive her senate confirmation hearing. Senator Dick Durbin once referred to his chamber as overly subservient to the big banks, saying, “They own the place.” Bankers everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the president’s pick for the nation’s top lawyer won’t try to put any of them in jail. The senators they sponsored in the last election cycle will likely confirm her with haste.
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Loretta Lynch, A.K.A. ERICA HOLDER...
Defending the banking industry since 1990!
She sat on the board of the FUCKING Federal Reserve for three years.
SHIT.
IF the CONUS is still in existence when her confirmation hearings come up early next year; 10/1 odds, she's a SHOE-IN.
I don't dislike her because she's a negroid, or a female, or basically butt-ugly. I dislike her (despise, in fact) because she's one of THEM. She defended the pricks at ENRON (by the way, remember the prosecution of ENRON that fell apart because all the S.E.C. records and the F.B.I. records and ALL THE OTHER RECORDS were stored in WTC7, which collapsed into its' own footprint at freefall speed at 5:20 P.M. EDT, Tuesday, September 11, 2001? HOW FUCKING CONVINIENT!). Greed and avarice know no racial, ethnic, or gender-specific bounds.
Loretta Lynch is Eric's Hang(wo)man.
Remember it can only get worse before it gets better.
what????? You mean this skank is a left-tard, Marxist, Harvard lawyer, scumbag??? Say it isn't so!!! Gee, I never woulda guessed that obamy would pick a corrupt piece of shit for AG. Shocked, I say!!! Shocked!!!
But then again, I don't know a lot of lawyers who are considered decent human beings...at least not the ones who are in the upper levels and who served for or aspire to be in the gooberment.
Although...there is one guy. This guy is the silver bullet against these evil Marxist scum.
I've read his books...I listen to his 3 hour show every night. He's one of the foremost Constitutional scholars of our time.
Mark Levin. That's who I would nominate.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/
Pull up his show on the 'ol interwebs each night and give him a listen.
And grab his books too...they're awesome!
Men In Black
Liberty and Tyranny
Ameritopia
Mark Levin is O.K., I suppose, but Judge Andrew Napolitano is light-years ahead of him.
Levin still wants the system to work. Napolitano wants the system to be re-booted. Levin drives people to the Neo-conservative Republican side of the false dichotomy. Napolitano drives people to the Constitutional remedies.
D'ya ken, laddie?
Even considering his book The Liberty Amendments, with its intention of clarifying the framer era original intent of the Constitution, undoing the jurisprudential usurpations and castrating the administrative state as a law making entity?
awesome choice as well! I'm a huge Judge Nap fan...have even seen him speak in person twice.
I feel bad that I didn't also include him in my endorcement, but at the moment I just didn't think of him.
Used to watch Freedom Watch nightly and when Fox cancelled his show I cancelled Fox. Stopped watching them and eventually cancelled cable TV all together.
Excellent call as well, in my opinion, and I'm glad you brought up Judge Nap.
Levin does piss me off sometimes about some of this views and in that he has hasn't been supportive of Libertarians...Ron Paul, Rand Paul, etc.
But he's still amazingly educational...fare...Constitutaional. And at times I sense over the last 4 or 5 years he's been coming around to a more Libertarian point of view. He's just being stubborn in some ways.
And of course we all are never going to agree 100% on everything. We can be close on so much and still let a few things keep us apart.
But in your Judge Nap call, I'm 100% behind ya on that one.
So that's 2 people I would go for. Good call, bro!
Aye.
Ya' ken, laddie.
I flew out to D.C. and saw the Judge speak at the Omni Shoreham at the CPAC 2009 meeting (as he introduced Ron Paul). Visited my Grandfather's grave at Arlington, as well. Stayed at the State Plaza Hotel. My room was like an apartment. Honest-to-God kitchen, dining room, living room, dressing room, bathroom, great big bedroom... I didn't know that the Freemasons are charged with the care of the National Cathedral until I visited it in person. Drove by the Pentagon, and wondered how they could let Reagan National Airport even continue to EXIST (after '9/11', and all).
10 square miles of absolute CORRUPTION.
Now, if I only had a wee bit o' Scotch...
I kinna do with just a wee bit.
Loretta Lynch and assistant at work [notice Wachovia Sign in background]...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdb1x2vQ2Z0
A couple of pros at work.. green shoots are popping up all across the cow pasture.
OH...
Dat's RAYCISS!
They need to take down the WACHOVIA sign at ONCE!
I think Erica Holder (nee 'Loretta Lynch') was sitting in the chair.
I forgot, is that Eric Holder’s Sister or James Brown’s kid brother?
Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss...
I was going to link a 'Who' song, but I found an old interview (2011) by Alex Jones with Gerald Celente, entitled 'Meet The New Boss; Same As The Old Boss'. I like Gerald Celente. He's honest, and doesn't cut any slack. I've been following him for several years, in fact.
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOanqkGVwA
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpiURa6IcQ
What does this have to do with Loretta Lynch? Well,... Loretta Lynch, the Banker's BITCH, is nominated to take the place of Eric (Fast And Furious) Holder.
I think Celente and Max Keiser ought to do a show together. (Max: 'crash JPMorgue, buy silver'. Gerald: FUCK YEAH!)
celente is grating and obnoxious, hard to watch. it's more fun to listen to nails being scraped across a chalkboard.
first time i heard of him, was when he was whining about getting ripped off in the mf global scandal. "loser", i thought. still do.
Let's see... Celente was helping end the fraud of the Comex by standing for delivery, and he got Corzined for his efforts.
Yet instead of noting the criminality of Corzine, you go on about Celente's whining about the lack of rule of law.
Do you always misinterpret important events like this? That you'd run your mouth like this while admitting it's the first time you saw him speaks for itself.
notapplicable, your comments are not applicable.
i don't know a lot about the guy or what he's done or hasn't done, i merely pointed out i don't enjoy listening to him, i don't care for his style.
do you always misinterpret comments by other zh posters to mean something they didn't say?
We can only hope Ms Lynch will promptly pursue parole for poor Honorable Corzine, wronged by the injustices of the merikan system of jurizproodence.
Perhaps she can also clear the cloud of hanging over Angelo Mozillo's orange head for all those false accusations of issuing thousands of fraudulent mortgage applications. I'm sure his persimmon-tainted face will brighten after she clears his name of these outright false and hurtful allegations.
I'm sure if you said that to Celente's face, he'd plant yours in the pavement.
Say what you want about Loretta Lynch..., but she sang some of the best country/western songs of all time.
(You picked the worst picture of her that you could find. I call B.S., Banzai7..., you penciled in that moustach.)
Oh,...wait.