"...We need a new direction. ... An immediate shift toward strong regionally based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq's cities, and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq..."
> The expression goes......."A leopard can't change its spots." In the case of former Ohio Attorney General, Jim Petro (R), it is apparent that he does not understand that his new job makes him look sleazy.
(Dispatch)
Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has taken a job at a law firm with which he brokered four potentially lucrative contracts as the state’s top lawyer.
Petro is joining two of his former deputy attorneys general in the new Columbus office of Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, the Cincinnatibased firm announced yesterday.
As attorney general, Petro gave the firm plum legal contracts representing state retirement systems that claimed investment fraud by mortgage lenders and another deal for the Department of Job and Family Services and other state agencies that alleged price-gouging by drug companies.
While most state legal contracts are billed by the hour, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley gets a percentage of settlements in cases for the state. In the one case already settled, against the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., the law firm is entitled to 15 percent to 20 percent of the $4.65 million settlement.
The firm is headed by Stanley M. Chesley, a prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates who also has donated to Republicans including Petro and Betty D. Montgomery, who unsuccessfully ran for Petro’s seat.....
>>> According to Iraq Coalition Casualties, Ohio has lost 130 of our service members in Iraq. See this map for further information.
