Lawyer Points Finger at Fieger Partner
Via AP/Yahoo:
DETROIT - A former associate in trial attorney Geoffrey Fieger's firm said Friday that he and his wife each gave $2,000 to Democrat John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign on the promise that they would be reimbursed by the firm.
Fieger is a regular on Fox News - mostly on Greta's On The Record. He's famous for something else, though:
Fieger, best known for defending assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, is running for Michigan attorney general. On Wednesday, FBI and IRS agents raided his offices in suburban Detroit, taking payroll and other financial documents, as well as ticket stubs for an Edwards fund-raiser and other campaign materials.
Now do keep in mind that this is still in the investigative stage - but it doesn't look good for Fieger so far:
Fourteen people listing Fieger's firm as their employer gave money to candidates in the 2004 presidential election. All of them gave to Edwards, according to a search of Political Money Line, a nonpartisan campaign finance tracking system. All of them — including a building manager and a courier supervisor — gave $2,000, the maximum individual contribution allowed in that campaign under federal law.
That's a whole office full of coincidence, isn't it? Probably what attracted them all was Edwards stance on campaign finance reform. Oh, and as a bonus, here's a quote from Geoffrey's statement announcing his current run for attorney general (all caps his idea, not mine):
THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE DESERVE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO CAN’T BE BOUGHT AND WHO IS NOT FOR SALE TO CORPORATE MONEY OR CRONYISM.
But being bought or sold by other Democrats - that's different, right?
