Rover's lawyer: fees paid in gold bars from drug dealer

[cynatnite]

Well, the prosecutors thought he should have gotten some inkling when Saccoccia started paying Luskin's attorney's fees in gold bars.

Yep, you heard that right. Luskin got paid more than $500,000 of his attorney's fees in gold bars from his client who was trying to appeal his conviction on charges that he laundered drug money through precious metals dealers. Who woulda thought that was drug money?

Luskin insisted that he "never have, and never would, knowingly accept a fee that was the proceeds of illegal activities."

But when federal prosecutors finally got a chance to depose Luskin and Saccoccia's other lawyers, they found that their lawyers' fees had come in forms "such as gold bars, cash that was dropped off at hotels and trunks of cars, and money transfers from Swiss bank accounts."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006045

[The Magistrate]

1. It Rather Sounds, Ma'am

Like he knew damned well the payment was proceeds of illegal activities....

[Melodybe]

2. Rove's lawyer a crook? Quelle surpris!

God, this is priceless!
Thanks for posting, I am laughing my ass off.

[Melodybe]

3. Kicked and nominated by the way

[deacon]

4. Holy shit! whoaaaaaaa ! n/t

[Melodybe]

5. Kick cause this is still too funny!

[fooj]

6. Rove is morally and ethically bankrupt.

Shouldn't the IRS be auditing the hell out of these bastards right now?

peace.

[kestrel91316]

22. I don't think the IRS audits Repukes these days nt

[Tommymac]

7. Perhaps we should trace to see if he is now

getting paid in 'Black' gold money...Texas Tea so to speak.

Whatever did happen to those unaccounted billions of the Iraq money entrusted to Halliburton et al?

[yurbud]

8. getting desperate and mixing their under and over the table business

Why didn't they just have the Contras plop a burlap sack full of coke on the table?

[progressoid]

9. Whaaaa?

[gademocrat7]

10. Corruption at it's best

This administration and all it's minions need to go.

[BamaBecky]

11. I'm not surprised....n/t

[converted_democrat]

12. Nothing surprises me anymore!!!n/t

[Triana]

13. The Mob/Mafia, whatever...

...is what this sounds like. Of course, this crime cabal is what runs this country.

[Ganja Ninja]

14. What's that old saying about birds of a feather?

The Bush administration = A crook, surrounded by crooks, surrounded by crooked lawyers.

[leesa]

15. Sounds like an Onion article. These guys are unbelieveable!

[Just Me]

16. OMG!! *LOL* The guy accepted laundered payments from drugs?

:rofl: Why am I not surprised!!!!

[johannes1984]

17. This is a good day

[ChiDem]

18. Not surprised

[ewagner]

19. Kick because

Truth is stranger than fiction! :rofl:

[Tesla]

20. Yeah, it's hard to imagine this is happening in the US

and they are getting away with it!!!!!!

It like I'm screaming in a bucket!!!!

They just act as if it isn't happening, and everyone else will just fall in behind.
It is WAY stranger than fiction, my friend!!!

[kittenpants]

21. That is amazingly funny!

:rofl:

[dogday]

23. The Crooked defends the Crook

sounds like Rove found an attorney with no scruples who will do whatever it takes to try to get his client off. God knows he will need it....

[Richard Steele]

24. When I saw the headline, I assumed this was an ONION piece...

Un-fricking-believable.

Every time I think these folks couldn't get any more OBVIOUS
about their criminal ways, they top themselves.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

25. How was HE sposed to know it was laundered...

ust 'cause the bills were all very clean & smelled of detergent...