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Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a new book.

In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to review Epstein’s case”.


https://www.theguardian.com/us...jeffrey-epstein-book


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I remember giving a talk once to a sizable group of college presidents. The schools were mostly small colleges. But there on the aisle sat Ken Starr of Baylor. He took up a lot of room, physically and metaphorically. No lack of ego in that guy.
 
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When I was in the worst part of getting divorced, a lawyer told me "lawyers don't care about what's fair or just, they care about getting the best outcome for whoever is paying them."

An overly broad statement, I know. But I also know several lawyers who fit that.


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When I was in the worst part of getting divorced, a lawyer told me "lawyers don't care about what's fair or just, they care about getting the best outcome for whoever is paying them."

An overly broad statement, I know. But I also know several lawyers who fit that.



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That's a feature not a bug.


Yep. Sometimes that's admirable. Other times ... less so.
 
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