With any luck, this may finally be enough to get Andrew Cuomo into the octagon. Bobby Benmosche gave it his best by warning AC about the enormous can of whoop ass he can expect once the Croatian wine duties have been attended to. But maybe it takes a more eloquent message to get the NY Attorney General’s blood boiling enough to do his best Bruce Banner impression and embark on a rampage in Charlotte that will only end when he’s holding Ken Lewis upside down by the ankles.
Bank of America’s lawyers responded to Cuomo’s most recent round of Merrill conspiracy accusations by stating, repeatedly, and in a colorful variety of ways, that his Office’s letter is a delicate mixture of selective hearing and remedial reading comprehension. If “The worst thing that will ever happen to him is when he and I meet in the room and I close the door” can’t get the Hulk fired up, let’s hope “the basic premise of the letter is simply wrong” and “the letter contains a number of spurious and false allegations” can.
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I’m glad to see companies finally standing up to this DB. Too bad more people didn’t do this when the hooker-fucker was in office a few years back.
That look on his face is the same exact same look Dr. Bruce Banner makes before he transforms into The Mighty Hulk, and then proceeds to kick all the bad guys’ asses.
Greg,
I want to rubber cement your chin-skin to your bottom lip, in hopes of making you look more English. I would also like to arrange paperclips on your desk to spell the words, “Yellow wall, I make sun.” Lastly, I would like to put rubber tips on my fingers, and comb your hair.
-Jeff Macke
Definitely not Scottish.
I like the ones with the Gecko better.
Cuomo’s weapon of mass destruction, the Martin Act, will trump BofA’s lawyers, AIG’s lawyers and everyone else’s lawyers every time. Louis Liman is not a chip off the old bock; his sassy response merely allows him to bill $1000/hr for “response to State AG letter” and get some good ink in the press as a vigorous advocate for corporate defendants. BofA will settle. If it’s freeling ballsy, it’ll litigate the shit out of the whole attorney-client issue (to the glee of its outside counsel). But the Martin Act will win the day. It gives the NY AG medievel powers.
How about the USA v. The Martin Act.
6: meh, everytime someone actually had the balls to call spitzers bluff and go to court he lost.
@8, my recollection is that the one guy who called his bluff and won was dick grasso, but that case did not involve the martin act — was the not-for-profit law.
The martin act doesn’t give him as much power as people think. I would plead the 5th and take him to federal court which would throw the martin act out so quick his head would spin. He still needs to take you to court for breaking a law, the martin act just gives him power to investigate. I believe Greenburg won as well.
that first paragraph is a gem of outlandish writing. send that to a creative writing seminar as specimen A for Attention grabber
they’re going to end up spending more money on their Cleary lawyers than they will on the settlement. This is a pissing contest and Kenny Boy is too stupid to just say “i’m sorry, here’s $75M and call it a day”
With the 15 attorneys they probably have working around the clock on this thing, they’re spending $200,000 a day. $1M a week. Just stupid, say what you have to say to get it to go away, and move on.
I am surprised the Martin Act is allowed to remain on the books after the abuse it took from Spitzer.