Miscellaneous

Alberto Gonzales and the Datatreasury Case Files

Posted on June 13, 2008
Since this blogger’s post yesterday about Alberto Gonzales finally having gotten a job as an assistant to the Special Master in a patent prosecution case in Texas’ Eastern District, it seemed only right to share documents filed in the case...

Alberto Gonzales Gets a Job, With a Little Texas Back-Scratching

Posted on June 12, 2008
Nine months after his nasty departure from the Justice Department, sprinting like a Texas jackrabbit from Capitol Hill back to Texas, disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally found a job. According to Bloomberg, Gonzales landed a job as a special master in a Texas patent case: DataTreasury Corp...

Gonzales Out of Work, Out of Luck

Posted on April 16, 2008
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales needs to pound the pavement a little more: he still doesn’t have a job. “He has, through friends, put out inquiries,” the New York Times reports, but “has not found any takers. What makes Mr...

ABA Names Alberto Gonzales Lawyer of the Year: When Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Posted on December 13, 2007
The American Bar Association bestowed Alberto Gonzales with one its biggest honors: it named him Lawyer of the Year for 2007. What was the rationale of America’s most-respected organization for lawyers? Gonzales was “[t]he most talked-about attorney this past year by a mile…[he] rose from being the grandson of illegal immigrants to the first Hispan­ic attorney [...

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Trust Fund For Gonzlaes Legal Defense Grows

Posted on November 15, 2007
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has friends in high places raising money for the embattled lawyer’s trust fund set up for his legal defense. Gonzales resigned from his position as the country’s top lawyer on September 17, 2007. According to the Washington Post, Ford Motor Co...

Gonzales Rumored To Be Planning For Low-Key Justice Department Exit

Posted on September 14, 2007
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is planning to make a quiet, low-key exit from the Justice Department at the end of the month, according to the Washington Post. Does he have any regrets, a reporter asked Gonzales in Iowa on Tuesday. The Attorney General’s response: “Well, of course, we’re all human, and all of us make mistakes, [...

U.S. Attorney General Gonzales Speaks At Coast Guard Academy About Sept. 11th

Posted on September 07, 2007
Last night, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Here is the complete text of his prepared remarks: Good evening. I am honored to be here at the Coast Guard Academy. I have great memories of my own time as a cadet at the Air Force Academy...

Assistant A.G. For DOJ Civil Division Resigning

Posted on September 06, 2007
Peter Keisler, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, gave 2-weeks notice today that he’s resigning. Keisler is one of three Bush appointees who were accused by Sharon Y. Eubanks, the DOJ’s former lead tobacco racketeering prosecution lawyer of interfering with the government’s prosecution of the case against Big Tobacco...