The New York Times informs us how, in western Virginia, far from the limelight, United States Attorney John L. Brownlee found himself on the telephone last year with a political and legal superstar, Rudolph Giuliani. For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics. The drug was believed to be a factor in hundreds of deaths involving its abuse. Mr. Giuliani, celebrated for his stewardship of New York City after 9/11, soon told the prosecutors they were wrong. In 2002, the drug maker, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., hired Mr. Giuliani and his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, to help stem the controversy about OxyContin. Among Mr. Giuliani’s missions was the job of convincing public officials that they could trust Purdue because they could trust him. (For the whole vile story)
The secret word is Shameless
As someone who is more "New Yorker" than not, being in such proximity, this surprises me not one bit.
ReplyDeleteDude's evil, man... seriously.
There's all sorts of stuff on him out there, including ties to non-Repugnican terrorists. And lest we forget that this one-time big time prosecutor lent a hand to the real terrorists by removing all the evidence from the biggest crime ever, a felony at best, treason at worst, and failed long before that to give his firefighters radios that actually worked. As an aside, the NYPD developed a very unsavoury attitude during his reign.
I do believe that this er, being, would actually be a lot worse than the Shrub... be afraid, be very afraid.