Both Karl and Dan Collins of Protein Wisdom had fun with Harper's's Horton, and his cries of selective prosecution.

Karl:

The law on “structuring" . . . would not be at all obscure to a bank, which was obligated to report suspicious activity to the IRS. Moreover, once this information was reported by ABC News, anyone can Google “structuring” and find it immediately. The feds were not on a politically-motivated fishing expedition—they got a report from a bank of suspicious activity requiring investigation.

Dan Collins explains that not only did the entire thing start with a tip from a bank, but (as he ironically notes): "so anxious was the DOJ to prosecute the guy that theyÂ’ve been driving the US Attorney bonkers," trying to get a signoff on an indictment of a public official.

Selective enforcement always scares me. But I'm not convinced that Spitzer was targeted because he was a Democrat; it seems more like his own arrogance and foolhardiness unraveled his career.

It's as if he were a rather disconnected version of William Jefferson Clinton—without, of course, Clinton's brilliance.

Posted by: Attila Girl at 09:43 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 203 words, total size 1 kb.

1 Deposit and withdraw amounts from your bank just under the trigger limit (say $999 . and bad things might happen to you. That's why I stick to $89 or so. That and the fact that I don't see many $9998 checks.

Posted by: Darrell at March 11, 2008 11:31 AM (JW+3p)

Hide Comments | Add Comment