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Ryan Davidson's avatar

So here's a fun little fact: one of the prosecutors in the Arthur Andersen, LLP case was none other than Andrew Weissman--of Mueller Report fame. Andersen, then one of the largest accounting/auditing firms in the world, was indicted and convicted of obstruction of justice, nominally for shredding documents. Well, here's the thing: that conviction was reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court, which held that a defendant cannot be convicted of obstruction of justice without some conscious awareness of wrongdoing connected to a particular proceeding. Turns out the documents in question may well have been shredded in keeping with Anderson's blanket document retention policies. But Weissman and the rest of the prosecutorial team convinced the trial judge to modify the jury instructions such that the jury could convict without any need for corrupt motive.

This became a hallmark of prosecutorial overreach. Precisely the sort of overreach that would mark the rest of Weissman's career at DoJ. . . .

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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

It's no fun being a Cassandra. I've been writing about this since 2010 at least, though I quit for awhile because hardly anyone cared. It is rather gratifying in a way that learning how to build a house, grow more food than I can eat, ferment alcohol, play music etc skills might actually carry some weight soon, even as I am well aware of the ramifications more than most, and it grieves my heart.

Good news is, the woke/trans/critical race crowd will be utterly helpless without their GAE backstop, and a lot of those -demons are likely to meet a grisly turn to meet their maker.

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