More Reaction to Verdicts

Significant questions remain regarding wire fraud conviction for Douglas Jemal and Blake Esheric.

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Not Guilty!

BLG Client Normal Jemal acquitted of all charges.

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Stan Quoted in Washington Post on Status of Conrad Burns

Iverson announced that the senator's criminal lawyer had confirmed with the Justice Department that "Burns is in fact not the target" of its investigation.

But what exactly does that mean?

Not much, said Stanley M. Brand, a lawyer in Washington with decades of experience in defending prominent officials charged with corruption. He represented former White House aide George Stephanopoulos in the Whitewater investigation and former representative Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1996.

Brand said that distinctions in a federal criminal manual between a "target," someone the Justice Department has decided to seek charges against, and a "subject," someone under investigation who could be upgraded to a target, are largely meaningless in a practical sense.

"You can't take these distinctions to the bank, because the Justice Department can change your status whenever it wants to," Brand said. "To me, it is academic. Burns is under investigation."

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Stan Appears on Hardball Twice Re: Foley Fallout

Stan appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews both Thursday, October 5 and Tuesday, October 10, discussing the Foley matter. Here's a snippet from his first appearance:

MATTHEWS: We‘ve got computers here on HARDBALL where I can tell everything anybody has said for weeks. LexisNexis, Google, we can find—we have ways, we have our own transcript system. Most of the programs on television, all the news programs have transcripts. You can dig up all this stuff.

BRAND: That‘s what they‘ve said publicly. You don‘t what they have said in the cloakroom, among each other, to other people with witnesses present. That is why the Republicans are having difficulty.

MATTHEWS: You‘re paid by the hour, aren‘t you?

BRAND: Yes, absolutely.

MATTHEWS: So you like this to be an extensive process?

BRAND: No, I just think to get the facts of who knew what, when, takes a long time.