FBI, IRS search Geoffrey Fieger’s Southfield office
When the Cheif stumbled across this, the name rang a bell. Feiger. Feiger? Oh yeah, one of the perennial deulling lawyers on Greta van Susteren’s show on Fox News, which features more concentrated pointless talk and useless speculation about legal cases than any other place on the planet. This has been a continuing slow-motion train wreck what with Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, Natalie Holloway, etc., etc., etc., and so on, for days and days of days and days of legalistic hair-splitting often based on skimpy or missing knowledge.
The Chief has had the misfortune to see this from time to time, as Mrs. Chief occasionally follows this – possibly as a form of televised muzak – just some background noise.
Feiger always seemed to have a smarmy smart-assed sort of attitude, and something about him always set my teeth on edge and give an urge to slap him upside the head, except for the fear that sh-t would splatter.
NOW, I know where that instinctive reactin came from – he was suicide peddler Jack Kevorkian’s legal mouthpiece. Now he’s under investigation for campaign finance violations.
A federal investigation surrounding prominent trial lawyer Geoffrey Fieger is being led by a section of the U.S. Justice Department that focuses on public corruption and campaign finance violations, officials confirmed Thursday. The FBI and Internal Revenue service raided Fieger’s Southfield offices Wednesday night, seizing boxes of documents while spending about four hours inside the building.
Another case of the recently ballyhooed “atmosphere of political corruption in the President’s party”?
Fieger, a Democratic candidate for state attorney general best known for defending assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, said Thursday morning that the probe is politically motivated by Republicans who control the U.S. attorney’s office in Detroit and the attorneys general in Washington and Lansing.
Ooops. Guess not – he’s a DONK candidate!
Fieger is known for his flamboyant courtroom style and outspokenness, notably in his former role as attorney for Kevorkian. Kevorkian claimed to have attended more than 130 deaths before being convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 in the death of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. Fieger has said he was not asked to represent Kevorkian in that case.
So if he HAD reperesented him, he would have gotten him off on that one too?
Fieger unexpectedly won the 1998 Democratic gubernatorial primary largely based on his popularity in Detroit. But Gov. John Engler easily beat Fieger, 62 percent to 38 percent, on the Republican’s stroll to a third term.
Democracy is a bitch sometimes, right Geoff?