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I saw Bert on TV - He's Distracting Us

By Tom Lincoln

I actually got to see H. S. "Bert" Garcia, our Texan U.S. Attorney in Puerto Rico, on the TV news last night when they showed a portion of a press conference the U.S. attorney's Office gave to announce a number of indictments in what they call a $4 billions a year money laundering operation and drug trafficking conspiracy. I was going to repress myself and not comment on the case, given that I have a client who is accused, but why should I have to shut up while the U.S. Attorney blabs to the press.Bert, my client is innocent!Bert must be thrilled to have some big indictments to put forth after playing with silly putty for more than a year. See our post on "Thin Resources" a/k/a AUSA's in D.PR in which we summed up the Chief Judge's comments to one of the Assistant U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Macondo Law on June 15, 2005 (boomark / email).