Stan on NPR's Nightly Business Report Discussing Enron Trial

Stan, discussing the possible defense that the transactions at issue were actually legal, said:

"I think that argument will rise or fall on how the government and whether the government is able to simplify these transactions and these requirements and explain to the jury that they crossed a clear line."

Go here for full transcript of the story.

Stan Quoted in USA Today on Validity of Indian Tribes' Status under Federal Election Law

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Stan Quoted in Dallas Morning News Discussing Abramoff Task Forth Yesterday

"They have what they really need to spark the fire, with not one but two cooperating witnesses who were part of the conspiracy," said Stan Brand, one of Washington's top ethics lawyers and a former U.S. House counsel. "No one can outrun a grand jury. No one can outrun a public integrity section that has now generated a full head of steam. ... Before this is over, people will be indicted."

Stan Quoted in Salon Article About "The Reform Charade"

"If people are breaking the speed limit, the way to change that is to give tickets, not change the speed limit." Link
Stan predicts next scandal will occur around 2015.

Stan Quoted in USA Today on Effects of Lobbying Reform

"We will contort ourselves in all sorts of ways in all these changes and rules and at the end of the day we will have a more restricted and much weaker legislative branch," said veteran Washington defense lawyer Stan Brand. He argues that the vigorous prosecution of wrongdoers is the best "disinfectant and prophylactic" for inevitable cycles of public corruption.

USA Today

Get Up Early and Watch Stan!

Stan will appear on C-Span's Washington Journal tomorrow morning from 7:45 am until 8:30 am. Topic will, of course, be lobbying refom.

Stan to Appear at Nat'l Press Club re: Ethics Commission

Monday, January 23, 2006, 9:30 am @ the National Press Club. Hosted by Common Cause.

Stan Appears on C-Span Event: "Implications of the Abramoff Scandal -- What Should Congress Do Now?"

Video will be posted here.

Stan Quoted on Proposed Lobbying Reforms in LA Times

Discussing the inability of reforms to "keep money out of politics."

Stan Discusses Yesterday's Washington Times' Article in Las Vegas Paper

In today's Las Vegas Review-Journal Stan expresses skepticism about yesterday's report in the Washington Times that Sen. Harry Reid is a focus of the DOJ's Abramoff investigation. He also states that he doubts whether the simple receipt of campaign contributions is sufficient as a basis for investigation. Full story here.

More Stan quotes on Abramoff today in Post and on TV

Washington Post
McLaughlin One-on-One transcript

Stan Quoted on Effects of Abramoff Investigation in today's "Post"

Today's "K Street Confidential" in The Washington Post quotes Stan on the effects of the Abramoff investigation:

"Everything is being looked at in a different light," Brand said. "Everyone is looking at their internal practices to see if they should be doing things in the scale they've been doing them or whether they've already stepped in it" and made a mistake.

Corporate attorney perhaps; but Watergate investigator?

In today's Seattle Times, a little advice from Stan:

First, "Cooperate fully with any government investigation, and tell the public and Congress that you are doing so," said Stan Brand, a corporate attorney in D.C. and a former Watergate investigator. Preston Gates says it is indeed cooperating.

Stan quoted on "US News" web site on why Abramoff isn't really a bipartisan scandal

In today's US News & World Report "Online On Politics" post by Gloria Borger she quotes Stan as saying that the Democrats did not have the same level of involvement with Abramoff because "there's no percentage in bribing the minority because they don't have any power."

Stan Quoted by Katrina Vanden Heuvel on "The Nation" Blog

In a posting on Wednesay, The Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel cited Stan's comments to Bloomberg News:

"When this is all over, this will be bigger than [any government scandal] in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to it," Stan Brand , a former U.S. House counsel who specializes in representing public officials accused of wrongdoing, told Bloomberg News. "It will include high-ranking members of Congress and executive branch officials."

Her forceful posting advocates for Dems to champion reform in order to engineer a "change election."

More Articles quoting Stan today . . .

On the extension of the Abramoff investigation to members of Congress and their staffs:
Boston Globe
The Hill

And across the pond, discussing the long-term repercussions:
The Guardian

Two Christian Science Monitor Articles quoting Stan

Two articles from the Christian Science Monitor: today ("Careers usually end when the indictment is brought") and yesterday.

Stan on Diane Rehm this morning

A full hour of Stan fielding questions from Diane Rehm and the nation on Abramoff.

Stan on Abramoff in today's Washington Post

Stan "said that the Abramoff investigation appears to exceed the standard set by the Supreme Court [for proving bribery in Sun-Diamond] . 'In a case of nuance, when you don't have eyewitnesses who are participants in a transaction, you have a problem," Brand said. "In this case, you do. The jury will have no problem convicting if they have three eyewitnesses.'"
Link to full story

Stan' s Abramoff Commentary on NPR's "Marketplace"

Here's a link to Stan's commentary on the Abramoff scandal on tonight's edition of "Marketplace".

Stan Discusses Repercussions of Abramoff Plea on CNN and ABC

Yesterday, Stan appeared on a number of televison programs including ABC's "Nightline" and CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight". On CNN he stated that the scandal:

will go deeply into the Congress. It will involve, I would guess, by the end of the year or more of this, another six-to-eight elected members. It will involve top staff people, some of whom worked for the leadership, and it will reach further into the executive branch and the agencies that were involved in regulating the Indian casinos who were his clients.

Here's the full transcript.

Tonight, Stan will be on "Marketplace" on NPR.