Comments on: The Guy Who Refused to Wiretap Illegally Is Off to Jail

By: james

james — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:10 +0000

You in South Boston by any chance?

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:18 +0000

There were ample warning signs for telco stocks, even the stock from the pyrotechnician Nacchio’s outfit, years prior. Then there was retrenchment. His style always was to dare to jump the bike over the Snake River Canyon each morning, to make the other dereg artists wonder if that was all special effects. Meanwhile he had the first all digital network, except he sold the hokey countrylane external plant instead of dealing with lastmileUSA capital quagmire. The reinstatement of the verdict seems all technical trading issues to me. It would be funny to see him have his day in Scotus, whose opinion might set a record for covering many topics.

By: biodieselvw

biodieselvw — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:16:02 +0000

Another stretch of an article by emptywheel. What a surprise!

It’s an insider trading case, plain and simple.

Slow news day?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:03:29 +0000

And if Nacchio refused to cooperate with the spying, he was probably just being coy and angling for some sort of deal sweetener.

Bingo. And doing so to cover the hinky accounting that was starting to become apparent from his tenure at Qwest.

By: robspierre

robspierre — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:53:37 +0000

There is a certain perverse, accidental, natural justice to what has happened to Nacchio.

Yes, he refused to play ball on wiretapping and maybe got screwed when they pulled his secret contract. But let’s not forget that he was one of the A-1 creeps, the pet of Anschutz no less. He was almost certainly guilty of insider profiteering in fact, even if it was less clear as a matter of law. The whole US West -> Qwest deal was a legal fraud, but a fraud nonetheless that ruined one of the best phone companies in the world and badly injured the whole hi-tech economy in the Rocky Mountain region. And if Nacchio refused to cooperate with the spying, he was probably just being coy and angling for some sort of deal sweetener.

I fear that this sort of thing may be as much justice as we are likely to get for the last 20 years of lying and thieving. So I, for one, am going to enjoy it.

By: Watt4Bob

Watt4Bob — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:16:43 +0000

This Minnesotan thinks Coleman is doing all he can to keep otherwise unemployed lawyers working.

It’s evidently part of the GOP jobs program.

I believe most of us also consider his career to be over.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:45:02 +0000

I spent the Viet Nam war years as a short-haired reefer smokin’ River Rat. Bet my weed was a lot better than his weed.

By: Twain

Twain — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:41:00 +0000

OT
Huff Post says Roland Burris II got state job ($75,000)
from Blago 5 months ago. Blago just happened to give a job to the Burris son. Whoops!

By: rwcole

rwcole — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Coleman actually spent the Viet Nam war years as a long haired reefer smokin freak- then went on to law school. He’s never had a job in the private sector- interesting for goopers that many of them are career govt. employees.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:28:14 +0000

I haven’t seen any-it’s incredible though that the election was held in November and we are nearly to March with no senator from Minnesota sitting in the empty seat.