TruthOut: Holder's Legacy: Mass Incarceration and Protection of Killer Cops, Part II
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Holder's Legacy: Mass Incarceration and Protection of Killer Cops, Part II
Friday, 24 July 2015 * By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Black Agenda Report * TruthOut
Eric Holder has been praised as a "civil rights"-oriented attorney general, but the only rights he has championed are those of the bankers, white vigilantes and killer cops. Holder refused to press charges against millionaire banking executives who, he assured Wall Street, 'were too big to jail.' Blacks have to make do with their Miranda warning rights - if they are lucky enough to survive an encounter with the police.
The most well-known Washington, DC secret is out in the open. In the tradition of "eyes wide shut," former Attorney General Eric Holder has returned to his 900-attorney law-firm of Covington and Burling signifying that the rotating doors between the Department of Justice and corporate America are spinning quicker than a gyrating vortex.
Holder had served his corporate masters well during his stint as Attorney General: not a single indictment of a killer cop or Wall Street thief. After all, they, unlike the over one million Black men in federal prisons (the majority of whom are serving time for non-violent crimes), were "too big to jail." All of his hard work and sacrifice on behalf of corporate American now culminates in the big payback. When asked about Holder's compensation as a partner in the law firm, Timothy Hester, Covington's chairman, declined to comment.
As Attorney General, Holder earned $199,700 per year but he has returned to corporate high cotton. According to a recent National Law Journal article, entitled
"Holder's Return to Covington Was Six Years in the Making":
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32040-holder-s-legacy-mass-incarceration-and-protection-of-killer-cops-part-ii
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