Bad news for Ed JewEd Jew's lawyer is bailing out. This can't be good news for the suspended supervisor. Lawyer Bill Fazio cites "irreconcilable differences," which in legalese generally means "my client wants me to do something that's moronic or unethical and I'm not going to get caught in that swamp." It could also mean "my client doesn't want to pay my hourly rate anymore," which, given the complexity and extent of Jew's problems, isn't a good sign either. But generally, when it's about money the client just fires the lawyer. For Fazio to petition the court for the right to quit means things are probably going very badly.
The guy is not helping himself. I'm still convinced that if Ed Jew had resigned when all the trouble started, the San Francisco DA would have dropped the charges against him, and the feds might have just let it go. Now he's facing serious federal charges, he's out of office and almost certainly not coming back and he's facing the real prospect of prison time. What, exactly, is he thinking?
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i think it's pretty easy to guess what's up.
fazio's job is to keep Ed out of jail. he's probably had more than one plea bargain worked out.
but it's obvious that any plea bargain is going to require ed's resignation.
and ed's priority, whether it's truly his own dream or that of his handlers (meskunas, gruel, comstock, et al) is ... to keep the gravy-train job.
that's a pretty irreconcilable difference.
add to that the fact that gruel seems to be handling the defense of the ethics commission charges ... which is based on ed's residency fraud ... ... which was fazio's turf until this week. (remember, gruel was only handling the federal mail-fraud case.)
stepping on fazio's turf, that's irreconcilable difference #2.
but at least gruel knows that ed's job is more important to ed than jail time....
sheesh.
this all couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of weasels.
Posted by tony | October 3, 2007 05:46 PM