Justice Department: Senior Official with Racketeering Ties?

The Washington Post reported on February 26, 2010 that prominent Harvard law professor Laurence H. Tribe has joined the Justice Department to lead an effort focused on increasing legal access for the poor.

Tribe, 68, long viewed as a contender for a Supreme Court nomination in a Democratic administration, will serve as a senior counselor for access to justice.

Tribe, who has taught at Harvard since 1968, is taking a leave of absence from the law school.

The announcement came a week after senior leaders at the department appeared at a Washington conference to draw attention to the large caseloads handled by public defenders and other challenges in providing legal services to low-income defendants. Some juvenile offenders, for example, are forced to go to court without seeing a lawyer, officials said.

"Problems in our criminal justice system aren't just morally untenable," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told an audience at the Mayflower Hotel Feb. 18. "They're also economically unsustainable. . . . When the justice system fails to get it right the first time, we all pay, often for years, for new filings, retrials and appeals."

Don't you just love the fact that Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe is on Akin Gump's payroll as a consultant to the firm and simultaneously holds a portfolio at the Justice Department?  Talk about legal incest!

In 1996 and again in 1997 the D.C. Corporation Counsel affirmed in papers filed, respectively, with the D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals that I had formed a genuine belief (unsupported by fact) that Akin Gump's senior management (including Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq.) had engaged in a pattern and practice of acts that might constitute the crime of racketeering under federal law.

http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/03/george-washington-university-medical.html

Vernon Jordan is, coincidentally, a personal friend of the Attorney General of the United States, Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Also, coincidentally, D.C. Corporation Counsel staff attorney M. Justin Draycott, Esq. -- who affirmed that I had a genuine belief that Akin Gump had committed unlawful acts (that might render the firm a racketeering influenced organization) -- is now a Justice Department attorney.  No wonder Justice has been intimidating me!

Tennis anyone?