How Can This Be Legal?

Responding to the bombshell revelation that senior bankers at Citigroup actively helped Enron hide billions in debt, Enron Lawyer of Last Resort Robert Bennett deftly summed up the real reasons for the current economic crisis: "Most of the problems -- not all of them -- are things that have been legal and acceptable".

And while honest lawyers are about as common as undercompensated CEOs, in this case, Bennett is actually telling the truth.
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BUSH-CHENEY WHITE HOUSE OBSTRUCTS HALLIBURTON LAWSUIT

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes public corruption, today reported that security staff at The White House threatened a process server with arrest over his attempt to serve Vice President Cheney with a complaint filed against him by Judicial Watch on behalf of shareholders of Halliburton. It is a crime to interfere with service of process.
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