Mukasey’s Firm Represents Front for Iranian Spies | Air America Radio

Mukasey’s Firm Represents Front for Iranian Spies Air America Radio:

"According to ABC News’ Blotter, “For more than 25 years, U.S. intelligence
and law enforcement authorities say they have suspected the New York-based Alavi
Foundation is a 'front' for Iranian espionage and anti-American activities. For
more than 25 years, court records show the foundation has been publicly defended
and represented by the New York law firm where attorney-general nominee Michael
Mukasey is a partner: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP.The foundation says
the firm continues to represent it. Mukasey personally handled at least one
matter in court for the foundation. That case, a real estate dispute, began in
1981 when reports first surfaced that the foundation, originally set up by the
Shah, had been taken over by the new Ayatollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mukasey took it to trial in 1984.”"

This is the sort of thing that will anger people on the right. I often have my doubts about talking about lawyers and their pasts. It is most likely the case that every lawyer in the country has some case in their history that could fowl their image. A case that they may have disagreed with, but the legal system unlike the political system doesn't work that way. Lawyers work for clients that they can fight a good case for, not always because they are right, but because they deserve their case to be made.