While domestic coverage is focusing on the kickback angle involving the bring down of a high powered law firm, the India Times is telling a different story with potentially disasterous ramifications for Dems including Hillary Clinton and her culture of corruption meme.
A week after Los Angeles federal prosecutors charged Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman with paying illegal kickbacks to name plaintiffs, top partners at the firm are rushing out the door.
"What'd the government think would happen?" said Melvyn Weiss, the firm's lead partner. While he remains unindicted, the charges against his firm and two top partners are making Milberg Weiss' future look increasingly bleak. here
In India they're reading this version:
The firm and individuals there made $2.78 million in campaign donations to Democrats compared to about $22,000 to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Among the recipients were senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry. "We will not be taking any action at this stage," Clinton's spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
The Democratic National Committee received $1.28 million. President George W Bush received a sum of $2,000 during the 2004 campaign as donations within the firm.
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