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AG Holder's Former Employer
By Kenneth Anderson (about the author)
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7) Representation of Enron-related defendant in GSA debarment
proceedings.
8) Counseling regarding US contracting disclosure and certification requirements resulting from initiation of criminal proceedings against client's corporate officers in South America and from US indictment of corporate board member. [I've been hunting this one, curious as to whether this refers to the Ecuador v. Chevron, $27 billion pollution litigation.]
[N.B. the time domain of this long-term bibbery scheme was then-CEO Dick Cheney's reign of error.]
9) We advised a major financial institution in connection with House and Senate investigations of the student lending industry.
10) We represented a major pharmaceutical company in an investigation by the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee regarding alleged off-label marketing of pharmaceutical products.
11) We represented Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., in an investigation into allegations that its drug, Accutane, contributed to teen suicides. The investigation ended with multiple congressional hearings in which we represented Roche.
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Other bits and bytes:
12) Lead counsel to Pfizer ...
13) Lead counsel to GlaxoSmithKline ...
14) Representated Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc ...
15) National co-coordinating counsel for Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and Roche Laboratories Inc. ...
16) Lead counsel to Purdue Pharma in OxyContin antitrust and consumer protection class actions.
17) Representing one of the world's leading oil companies in an EU cartel investigation into the bitumen market.
18) Represented a coalition of eleven oil and gas companies whose efforts to pursue development of their California offshore oil and gas leases were thwarted by the federal government.
19) Represented other oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, in breach of contract lawsuits involving leases offshore Alaska, Florida and North Carolina.
20) September 2003 press release from the firm, C&B successfully argued on behalf of the Southern Peru Copper Corporation* to drop a lawsuit brought against it by Peruvian citizens charging the copper company with polluting communities and causing health problems.
21) Covington & Burling also served as "corporate affairs consultants" to the Philip Morris group of companies and helped organize the company's "Whitecoat Project," Big Tobacco's "no scientific consensus" campaign.
Become a Fan -- Page 2 of 3 page(s)
8) Counseling regarding US contracting disclosure and certification requirements resulting from initiation of criminal proceedings against client's corporate officers in South America and from US indictment of corporate board member. [I've been hunting this one, curious as to whether this refers to the Ecuador v. Chevron, $27 billion pollution litigation.]
[N.B. the time domain of this long-term bibbery scheme was then-CEO Dick Cheney's reign of error.]
9) We advised a major financial institution in connection with House and Senate investigations of the student lending industry.
10) We represented a major pharmaceutical company in an investigation by the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee regarding alleged off-label marketing of pharmaceutical products.
11) We represented Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., in an investigation into allegations that its drug, Accutane, contributed to teen suicides. The investigation ended with multiple congressional hearings in which we represented Roche.
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Other bits and bytes:
12) Lead counsel to Pfizer ...
13) Lead counsel to GlaxoSmithKline ...
14) Representated Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc ...
15) National co-coordinating counsel for Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and Roche Laboratories Inc. ...
16) Lead counsel to Purdue Pharma in OxyContin antitrust and consumer protection class actions.
17) Representing one of the world's leading oil companies in an EU cartel investigation into the bitumen market.
18) Represented a coalition of eleven oil and gas companies whose efforts to pursue development of their California offshore oil and gas leases were thwarted by the federal government.
19) Represented other oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, in breach of contract lawsuits involving leases offshore Alaska, Florida and North Carolina.
20) September 2003 press release from the firm, C&B successfully argued on behalf of the Southern Peru Copper Corporation* to drop a lawsuit brought against it by Peruvian citizens charging the copper company with polluting communities and causing health problems.
21) Covington & Burling also served as "corporate affairs consultants" to the Philip Morris group of companies and helped organize the company's "Whitecoat Project," Big Tobacco's "no scientific consensus" campaign.
An astronomer who has worked on a number of NASA projects, Ken lives in Baltimore, where he devotes his scientific training to observations and inferences about current affairs, politics and the media.
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It is the size of the crash that is the problem
by kwalsh on Sunday, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:42:03 PM