This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1459364
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1459364
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Just what we need in the Senate, another retrograde asshat whose personal fortune is tied to 19th century technology. Let’s all take a wild guess how this fuckwit will vote on 21st century issues.
Coal, whaling, the fur trade, slavery, buggy whips and celluloid collars. And somehow we still cling to one of them.
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We have all been spoon fed the notion that “no one is above the law” for so long that people wanted to believe it, but it is far from true and is being tested over and over and over again. The results are not yet in, but it is quite clear that there are laws but no justice.
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Sounds like the perfect (Republican) for the Senate.
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At least no laws that Justice thinks apply to him.
ETA: And the government is well-known for making verbal “deals” to “settle” imposed penalties for 6 cents on the dollar. Nice try, Justice family.
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I mean, Mancin gonna be the next prez’nit, so he doesn’t need to worry about his senate seat.
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Well played. Very well played.
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… in the wake of corporate bankruptcies that threaten to shift the costs to taxpayers.
So they’ll privatize the profits and socialize the cost of clean-up?
I’m shocked!
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It sounds as if this retrograde asshat has made his fortune substantially on the premise that the law and the ordinary rules of finance do not apply to him. Which makes him sound an awful like a former president.
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“Behind every great fortune lies an equally great crime.”
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So Biden fell at a commencement address - clear your calendars. That is all anyone will be talking about for the next week.
Apparently he wasn’t hurt, thank God.
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Lead story for next 72 hours.
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Justice has said that he and his family’s companies always pay their debts.
“A Justice always pays his debts” H/T George R.R. Martin
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“Who left that @$#&*() sand bag there? This is a buncha malarkey!”
He wasn’t injured. He’s fine. Who cares except the political press hacks?
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I wish that the owners of the coal mines were forced to pay for all the externalities. Everyone affected by climate change should be given a piece of this business, or whatever assets are can be aquired by striping it, and all who profitted from it, of everything they have.beforw we leave the remains to rot in the oppressive sun.
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"But her email his pratfall!"
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Justice appears to be very Trumpian in his businesses:
While past media reports — including those by NPR and Forbes — have noted two cases where Justice companies have failed to pay even their own lawyers, ProPublica found at least seven additional instances in which Justice companies were sued by law firms that had represented them. Taken together, the string of cases shows a pattern: A Justice company fails to pay a bill and is sued over the debt. Lawyers are hired to fight the collection suit. They often lose or settle, and then have to sue their Justice-related clients to get their fees.
Looks like Democrats dodged a bullet when Justice switched parties. The guy appears to be exactly the kind of deadbeat you expect from an American oligarch.
Edit: Another example of Justices’ Trumpian business strategy
Specifically, New London Tobacco alleged that the Justices transferred property and other assets in anticipation of losing the debt collection case. In one instance, the suit says, about $1.8 million from the sale of coal leases was “diverted” by wire transfer to Jay Justice’s personal brokerage account at Goldman Sachs. Citing federal racketeering laws, New London Tobacco alleges that the Justices are “members of an association-in-fact enterprise” — a term originally intended to allow the targeting of organized crime.
“The business strategy,” New London Tobacco said in its lawsuit, “includes incurring debts that they do not intend to pay and using delay and forcing creditors to bring unnecessary litigation, so that the members of the Enterprise can avoid full payment of their debts.”
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To be fair - the same way Joe Manchin does.
The only two** differences (which are still significant) are that Joe usually votes for Biden’s judicial appointments, and the speaker vote.
** credit to irasdad, I did not mention the second point in my original post.
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