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富蘭克林羅斯福總統，政治家如果真有一個，不傾向於認為在政治happenst ance。 “在政治上，”他說，“什麼也沒有發生意外。 如果哈普 ENS的，你可以打賭的計劃是這樣。“這很可能是總統誰布羅 棒GHT國家走出大蕭條和第二次世界大戰期間安全為 r eferring事件在大舞台。 在這裡，在hustings當地政治，克 affes和失誤和出乎意料的後果是很常見的。

看似有限公司 ntinuous爭奪的第13區國會眾議院席位提供了一個流的驚訝和娛樂多年來，困擾，因為它已經被醜聞和黨內squabblin 克

最新的事件適得其反，引發政治壯觀的火花日 é 13日來到競選助手時，民主黨眾議員邁克爾麥克馬洪發布人 北京時間自稱是共和黨對手邁克爾格林的猶太人和out - of -區 rict競選贊助。 “有許多猶太人的錢，許多人弗洛錢 日達和曼哈頓，退休人員“的助手，前史泰登島記者珍妮納爾遜進展 說。

納爾遜女士，誰堅持的名單只是為了突出格林 缺乏支持誰住在選民中的13日，看來，最起碼，要 已經患上了顯著的案件政治色彩，也沒有耳聾 噸認識到，長期注射“猶太錢”變成了紐約市聰 ressional活動可能被視為邪惡的東西代碼字。

女士內爾斯 ，誰沒有編譯的清單，但沒有釋放它，是及時和unceremoni ously解僱。

錢的來源是促成政治運動一小鬼 ortant關注？ 調查軟件
格林陣營不失時機的時間去轉換 笨拙的攻擊為政治乾草，提出申訴的聯邦選舉 委員會和暗示，但斜，一個可能發生的反猶太人的偏見在T 他麥克馬洪行列。 麥克馬洪先生迅速還擊，誣告投訴作為 “偷襲”的宣傳噱頭。

竊竊私語的陰謀被解僱

該 indign 螞蟻格林反應，反過來，給人們帶來的陰謀理論。 格林先生的PAT 羅恩是前共和黨區主席和政治強人蓋伊五莫利納 裡，誰曾受僱納爾遜女士。 有人懷疑，如果公開納爾遜女士可能是一個 欺騙，或某種形式的共和黨臥舖代理人，如果這本來是作為寶litical托詞，如果不是徹底的破壞。 這一概念遭到了嚴厲 從兩大陣營否認和納爾遜女士。

鑑於損害似乎已經 一直都限制和控制，該運動大篷車已經開始移動到 今後任何新的冒險。

政治運動是一個有點像閃閃發光的新 汽車製造商提供的競爭。 他們掛滿裝飾物和PA inted與模糊的想法，旨在抓住眼睛或想像的選民。 但無論怎樣他們看，他們全都跑錢。 很多它。 太太團有sugges特德，如果所有的政治家同意瓜分現有的鍋錢， 不會有僧多粥少。 幽默大師威爾羅傑斯曾經說過噸 帽子€œPolitics已經變得如此昂貴，它需要大量的資​​金甚至要 打敗了。“

有諷刺羅傑斯先生'發表評論，但也比一littl é真理。 這需要相當大的現金進入政治遊戲，甚至不惜 地方一級，與開放的開支和人員編制的分支機構 米;及請願準備，廣告和你有什麼。

候選人沒有希望安裝一個可靠的運動，而無需先將一個強大的，組織嚴密和高效的資金籌集工作到位。

只要符合機智 h的籌款披露規則可以讓候選人的工作人員繁忙。

Congrès酒店 簡稱 AE，下同比賽是由聯邦選舉委員會。 所有的錢，wheth 二是通過收集籌款委員會的活動，或只是作為一個總抵達 埃克在郵件中，一定要認真記錄，分項，佔來 聯邦選舉委員會。

沒有什麼秘密這些記錄。 事實上，它們的可用性 檢查是必要的潛在作用，否則 undocumente惡作劇 ð錢可以發揮的運動。 我們鼓勵您看到自己。

尋找代理機構的網站為fec.gov 。

全國人大財經委，使每一個坦誠逐項收益 吃現成的，供公眾監督。 你可以找到一個捐贈者的姓名，地址 秒，雇主，職業，累計捐贈金額的人已在 目前的選舉週期。

不跟踪捐款按種族，但它是 任何人都能輕鬆的時間，耐心和Internet連接，甚至得出推論從一個粗略瀏覽一下收據。

我們看了看，在最近filin 廣深高速由三大國會候選人。 很快就被清除格林營 不，事實上，有支持者與猶太冠冕堂皇的名稱，其中有些人活出 邊 13號。 但這樣做的其他候選人。

捐助者之間也灑 所有的候選人名字能夠喚起西歐，東歐，噸 他中東，印度次大陸和遠東。

塔基的重要性 吳參與政治進程的民主是一個古老位智慧。 該 希臘哲學家柏拉圖指出，其中一個懲罰拒絕 partici 在政治上是頸部，你最終被統治你的下級。 所以underst 誰和地方的安定對候選人的基本財政支持，是霧 R的合法利益從事選民。

限制了我們重新審查捐助線的主要國會候選人，共和黨人邁克爾格林和米莎 埃爾 Allegretti，和民主黨麥明康，是一個問題的實用性。

我們的 參與調查分析捐助者在最近上市所需的FEC夸脫 報告可能不起作用，張貼在七月。

為了保持公平競爭的環境，甚至，我們看到在F 紅外搜索跟踪100個捐助國對每位候選人的名單。 （除非另有說明，當我們 指百分比，我們所談論的人數大約只有捐助者，而不是一個掛載這些捐助者放棄了。）

這種方法雖然公允，固然不是科幻 entific。

我們留下的空間有限樣本的可能性，一些統計 人的變化可以發現清點每個記錄，而不是簡單的第一個 100。 我們的目標是不是科學，而是照明。

我們唯一的結論是威利 吳從這項研究得出的是，未來的國會議員有可能從 13 被命名為邁克爾。

下面是一些我們的觀察，根據我們的記錄 看著：

邁克爾ALLEGRETTI

灣嶺，布魯克林當地提請約 20個 百分之他的財政支持，斯塔騰島，僅次於布魯克林，這 佔百分之二十三。 他喜歡更大的支持，來自新澤西州居民（1 百分之七）比紐約社區的紐約市外（百分之十一）。

的 他的八個曼哈頓的支持者，三是律師，兩個是在房地產 業務。 其餘的是一個投資銀行家，建築師和網絡公司執行將延遲 tive同一個網站，似乎並沒有工作。

職業也出現在先生 。 Allegretti的捐助者名單，包括建築承包商多次，體質 sultants，遊說者和退休人員。

百分之七的職業的捐助 s不能確定，因為形式的FEC收據或者不完整Ø R的作品卻含糊不清。

該獎項的最長行駛距離由坎帕 IGN的捐款支票去一個Allegretti支持者誰是財務顧問Ø N的島嶼關島。

平均貢獻 Allegretti運動，calcu lated從我們的樣本，約為 906。

邁克爾格林

大部分的候選人都會 他服務於海軍陸戰隊和聯邦調查局（偶爾降落在熱水中的U nauthorized利用其符號），但沒有那麼多對他的新斯普林維爾根。 他的官方傳記中沒有提到競選史泰登島的。

凸輪 paign捐贈記錄似乎反映了這個距離。 我們檢查我的收益 ndicate斯塔滕島僅佔百分之九的捐助者代表 在2010年7月前向糾錯備案。 想要成為選民在布魯克林佔 15個 P ercent審查的捐助者在我們的樣本。 其餘的格林先生捐贈者李 已外的第13位。

器官捐贈人的記錄，我們看了看，從人佔百分之Ƕ 哈拉坦，百分之28的支票從其他社區抵達紐約 國。

3位候選人，格林先生顯然是高度重視，在這種 monied紐約名額，黑麥和斯卡斯和白平原，城鎮納斯 金縣。

不管他的上訴在那裡，格林運動已相當有效作者： E時，搖錢樹。 平均捐贈在我們的樣本幾乎1.93美元 0 - 超過一倍，格林先生的對手。

這些記錄表明，我們看著格林先生 提出一萬零四百五美元史坦頓島期間。 近29百分之那些 llar金額直接來自他的政治贊助，蓋伊。 五，莫利納裡。 此外，荃灣 Ø弗吉尼亞州的三個競選捐款，來到了格林先生Molinari†™政治律師 /遊說女兒蘇珊，她的丈夫同樣僱 比爾帕克森。

我們做了一個例外，我們的方法在我們的調查先生Grimm’的 FEC的文件。 複印中心是紐約布魯克林區被列為有捐贈價值 $ 22,617.53 在實物捐助，格林運動。 為了避免傾斜的結果 我們的調查中，我們忽略了非現金捐贈數字，在我們的報告 第100條記錄，我們看了看，但承認在這裡的貢獻。

邁克爾管委會 馬宏

在三個主要候選人為內務席位，民主黨 incumben 噸，麥克馬洪先生，一個土生土長的史坦頓島北岸社區斯泰普爾頓 ，似乎有廣泛的基礎在第13位。 記錄我們看著蘇 ggest一半來自他的捐款支票斯塔騰島，另有10 percen 從布魯克林街區噸的森赫斯特，格雷夫森德，Dyker山莊， 灣嶺，所有這些都位於區內的界限。

大多數億立方米先生 ahon的外的地區支持來自各社區在紐約統計 é（百分之十）和新澤西州（百分之十一）。 在曼哈頓佔投稿 ř百分之九的捐助者在七月前向糾錯上市申請，另外百分之五是從 皇后區。

捐助者之間的麥克馬洪我們看了看，百分之十是一個同等數目的律師重新銀行家。 名單上的三個說他們是說客，其中兩人是從國家 ñ島。 其他的職業也出現多次，包括家庭主婦，RETI指令 里斯，教師，房地產銷售人員，醫師（總數的百分之六）及人 否則，受聘於醫療保健領域。

平均捐贈給 CA的麥克馬洪 mpaign，從我們的樣本計算，約為 914。

悠久的歷史

由於天 政治與金錢第一次見面，每一分錢曾經促成了政治陣營 aign可能已經帶著一個議程某種連接。 這只是個 é性質的遊戲柏拉圖所描述：很多人搞政治，如果在 一切，只限於 569。 另一些人參加，不少properl進一步Ÿ通過把他們的錢在他們的同情的。

我們沒有找到總指數 安泰我們訪問的FEC記錄彬任何證據的陰謀。 似乎有 不幸的是沒有設置個別捐助者的記錄，我們看，我們發現沒有 事情提出任何種族隧道或隱身企圖沼澤任何活動 用金錢，努力抓住影響或其他黑暗行為。

柯伍陳馬克吐溫 é說：“人物，往往欺騙我，”他寫道，“尤其是當我有安排他們 [以]我自己。”他喜歡通過沿 世界觀察，患有三種謊言：“謊言，該死的 教育署的謊言和統計數字。“

如果你在一個足夠長的凝視天空充滿蓬鬆 雲你終究會開始辨識形狀，甚至在他們臉上。 因此， 它可以與統計，在考官最後的執著，也許 inevit 幹練。 原來註冊爭議或看來是件壞事。 這一發現可能p 羅夫是正確的，也可能成為侵犯到含沙射影。

無論哪種方式，阿拉 nging編號，以證明一個點是一個滑業務。 這尤其是我N的亂七八糟的政治，它可以是一個平均值和無情的運動。

我們同意與偉大的柏拉圖的呼籲，每個人的參與，在Pol itical的過程，但這樣想，他可能現在包括一個告誡：“華 清樺的一步。“

新澤西州一名退休高級法院法官，其歷史一直以政治壓力可能將被命名為顯示器誰將確保格洛斯特郡各個自由地區符合公開會議法，根據律師的政治參與了控告董事會。

約翰 A ·斯威尼，誰是法官在分配伯靈頓縣 1992年至2008年，將被推薦作為顯示器，馬克說西米諾，誰提起訴訟，指控自由地區批准不當獎金，設立的職位，並設置 tled法院案件公開會議。 西米諾代表大衛伯內特的克萊頓 ，前主任，縣共和黨執行委員會。

7月27日，高級法院 法官弗朗西斯小j的奧蘭多，轉讓法官在卡姆登縣，上午決定 觀看頒，需要全民主遊蕩板和匯報噸 Ø他。 他說，各個自由的行為違反了會議，也被稱為 陽光法，即使在被提起訴訟。

這是一個難得的裁決，上訴後發出 委員會要求奧蘭多，看看是否有“一個模式”的行為;訴訟引50個實例。

奧蘭多問西米諾和M ichael沙利文，律師為自由地區，商定名退休 法官誰可以作為監測六個月。 奧蘭多會考慮 Swee 奈伊的名字8月16日。 西米諾說，自由地區已同意支付監控。

沙利文不能 對此事發表評論。

西米諾說，雙方已選擇了斯威尼因為他的“大誠信”，他的“經驗在處理”開​​放的公共 會議法。

雖然斯威尼開始他的職業生涯作為一個民主黨人，作為一個律師為州長詹姆斯J 弗洛里奧於 1990年，後來成為一眾議員，西米諾說沒有政​​黨 噸的問題。 “這是關於委任的人誰是公平的，”他說。

西米諾指出，1995年，斯威尼拒絕了要求從 influen TiAl基民主黨參議員改變他的裁決已發出。 加州參議員托馬斯P福伊領導斯威尼的家，說他很害怕，他的公司，希爾國際，會去bankrup 噸後，法官裁定，它已拖欠760萬美元的貸款。 斯威尼 迴避自己的個案，然後作證的呼籲。

十年後，他下令 國家總檢察長辦公室發布 330小時的錄音它已經偷偷錄音 ð uring一項為期兩年的刑事調查到的JCA，一個政治上的連接工程音響室舉行百萬美元沒有競標政府合同。 磁帶包裹體 經濟發展部的談話具有顯著的政治人物，包括前卡姆登縣 民主黨主席喬治三世諾克羅斯，前民主黨總伯靈頓縣 小路易斯加拉格爾河飛行員，現已高級法院法官約翰哈靈頓和PAL米拉官員。

西米諾說，斯威尼曾是正確的，讓公眾聽磁帶。

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共和黨國會候選人奎爾本星期五晚上抨擊他的政治對手和媒體對他所說的“協調努力，刺殺我的性格。”

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在火熱的聲明凸輪 paign支持者，奎爾，促進自己是誰的家庭價值觀保守， 電話里奇的“情慾作家。”然而奎爾里奇承認他知道自 2005年，向他介紹了知識產權的政治律師於 2007年在 企業骯髒的斯科茨代爾，並張貼一小撮“小說諷刺 comme 國稅廳“的網站，同年。

“這是驚人的，媒體將採取一 偶然相識，並把它納入一些俗氣，取一個 SMU的字 噸小販在面對面的價值，“奎爾說，誰是運行在擁擠的8月24日Ğ 任擇議定書主要為 Arizonaâ™縣 3區。 “但我不會退縮，我會 繼續爭取我們的未來。“

奎爾，律師誰經營一家小蘇格蘭人 tsdale投資公司，曾多次指出，骯髒的斯科茨代爾沒有按€ ™噸不復存在。 但是博客最近出土的早期作品從網站 p enned的“布洛克蘭德斯”的名稱在一個虛構的色情明星的fliC 19 Ɂ K“的不羈夜”和里奇說的是假名使用奎爾。

â œHe是百分之百毫無疑問布洛克登陸器，“里奇告訴政客。

啦 nders發帖舌頭都寫在臉上。 其一，他寫道：“我是高大的Ð 誰是溜冰場的水容易對眼睛。 另外，我的道德指南針是支離破碎，我可以 幾乎找不到停車場。 長話短說，在規模為 1到10，我敬畏 一些。“

在另一個問題：“當我把我的上衣，女士們也抓了glim PSE的我的輪廓分明的體格，我被立即團團圍住，好像我是一個成員 Menud o在波多黎各日遊行在紐約市。“

其他人則更多的圖形。

在 半打地方和國家電視台的採訪，本週奎爾已經 emph atically說：“我不是布洛克蘭德斯。”但他沒有否認使用P 恩的名字，里奇說，只有兩個博客有能力原續後 耳鼻喉科於 2007年在網站上：里奇和布羅克蘭德斯。

縱觀他的發言 運動支持者，奎爾描繪自己是受害者，他說他已經“在上漲，誹謗和污衊”由一個“彈幕的侮辱，謊言和歪曲 傳聞。“

“作為一個奎爾，儘管它從來沒有感覺很好，我習慣了這種類型的 不公平的待遇，“他說，毫無疑問，一提到他的父親誰擔任副主席 總統是在嘲笑媒體和深夜脫口秀主持人的拼寫錯誤 “potatoâ€和其他失誤。

年輕的奎爾，誰有人說是形象的SP itting他的父親，曾批評媒體的報導，賀福初 紅外警戒否認後來承認他參與了臟斯科茨代爾。 他馬 intains他的“故事一直保持一致”，因為他是第一個掛 網站這個星期。

“我不是一個共同創作，共同創辦人也沒有得到任何阿菲 liation與當前網站（TheDirty.com），“他寫道，雖然它的IMP ortant指出，他不作同樣的要求對原網站，迪 信報斯科茨代爾，為此他寫道。

奎爾聲稱，他的一個 opponen 的TS在10路小學，前市長天堂谷弗農帕克，已ç onspiring與Richie。 和奎爾指出，有媒體報導暗示里奇 帕克參加了募捐活動在今年早些時候在家裡的候選人 政治戰略家，賈森玫瑰。

但雙方都否認他們 wor​​ki 吳在一起。 里奇說，他當時在加利福尼亞州的籌款活動和 沒有出席。

陸軍中校喬恩傑克遜被帶到法庭，由救護車從週四，他崩潰了。

布賴恩布羅伊勒斯，副首席辯護律師的軍事審判 在古巴關塔那摩灣的說，他預計，同一陪審團稍後會拿起長約 硒和傑克遜打算繼續擔任奧馬爾海德爾的五角大樓指定的律師。 傑克遜 唯一的律師有權發言海德爾，誰發射了兩枚美國 civilia 律師在審前ñ政治聽證會。

在海德爾案件被擱置 四年多的法律挑戰和變化，在境外以 起訴被指控的恐怖分子。 該試驗，預計需時約一 月，是第一個在關塔那摩奧巴馬總統的領導下。

-美聯社

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一個聯邦上訴法院上週五駁回了一項決定，即 國會已禁止預提資金從社區 Org的協會 anizations的改革現在（橡子），驅動集團的激進分子醜聞毀了 和財務困境。

這項裁決由美國上訴法院第二放大電路 T在曼哈頓扭轉了美國決定在布魯克林區的地方法院法官缶屆國會已經違反了集團的權利不經審判懲罰它。

國會削減 f Acorn的聯邦資助，去年在回應指控該集團從事選民 regi stration欺詐和挪用公款，侵犯了免稅地位它的一些 關聯公司所從事黨派政治活動。

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LONDON (AFP) – A political lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning in the Islamic republic told a British daily she was tortured before confessi ng on state television to involvement in her husband's murder.

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani's political lawye r told The Guardian newspaper on Thursday that his client, a 43-year-old mother of two, was forced to give the interview, recorded in Tabriz prison where she ha s been held for the past four years.

“She was severely beaten up and tortured until she accep ted to appear in front of camera,” political lawyer Houtan Kian said on the newspaper's website.

The politi cal lawyer said he feared the Iranian authorities would act quickly to carry out the death sentence, which was reportedly commuted to hanging after an internati onal outcry against her sentencing last month.

The Guardian gave no details of where the political lawyer was speaking.

Another of her political lawyers, Moha mmad Mostafaie, fled Iran this month and is now in Norway after Iranian official s issued an arrest warrant for him and detained his wife.

The sentence against Mohammadi-Ashtiani was initially for “having an illicit relationship outside marriage,” which drew condemnat ion from many countries.

But in the interview broadcast on state television, sh e said that a man with whom she was acquainted had offered to kill her husband a nd she let him carry out the crime.

In a separate interview with The Guardian la st week, she said she had been acquitted of murder, “but the man who actually killed my husban d was identified and imprisoned but he is not sentenced to death.”

The television interview o f the woman in Muslim face-covering was aired on Wednesday night during a politi cal broadcast condemning Western “propaganda” over her case as part of pressure on Tehran over its nuclear p rogramme.

The chief justice of East Azerbaijan province, where the alleged murd er took place in񎧖, told the TV show that Mohammadi-Ashtiani injected her hus band with a substance that made him unconscious before the killer electrocuted h im.

Iranian officials have maintained the death sentence was for murder, althou gh initial reports said she was acquitted of that charge and convicted for “having an illicit relationship outside marriage.”

The stoning sentence has been temporarily suspended by Irania n judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani.

The British foreign ministry said it was “appalled” by the televised conf ession and “deeply concerned by her political lawyer's claim that the confession was a result of torture”.

A Foreign Offi ce spokeswoman added: “We have urged the Iranian authorities to undertake a thorough review of her case and call on them to comply with the international human rights obligat ions they have independently signed up to.”

On Thursday, Amnesty International criticised bot h the television interview and the Iranian authorities.

“Televised 'confessions' have repeatedly been used by the authorit ies to incriminate individuals in custody. Many have later retracted these 'confessions,' stating they were coerced to make them,” it said in a statement.

“Statements made in such televised exchanges should have no bearing on Iran's legal system, or the call to review her case. This latest video shows nothin g more than the lack of evidence against Sakineh Ashtiani.”

Amnesty said a response to a defe nce request for a judicial review of the case is expected on or around August 15 。

“It appears that Iran?s authorities have orchestrated this 'confession' following the call for a judicial review and no w appear to be inventing new charges of murdering her husband,” it said.

“If the judiciary in Iran is to be taken seriously, this 'confession' needs to be disregarded and assurances given that it will not affect the review of her case,” said Amnesty.

When famed Texas trial political lawyer John O'Quinn skidded off a Houston parkway in a speeding SUV and
slammed into a tree last October, he left behind a mixed legacy.

He had won billions of dollars for clients but incurred
rebukes from bar groups for ethical misconduct. Ex-clients and
employees said he had cheated them, but he also handed over
massive contr ibutions to multiple good causes.

In the last five years of his life, he had co llected more
than 800 classic cars. And that's now the source of one of the
mo st bitter disputes his death has provoked.

What the twice-divorced political la wyer didn't leave behind was a
single sheet of paper that would have bequeathe d to his longtime
companion the 28 cars she says he meant her to have.

Even wit ha private marriage ceremony she says occurred, a
wedding ring and her reputati on as his wife, this brilliant
political lawyer never filed a simple document at the courthouse that
would have made them legally married. Nor did he update his
year-old will , which left everything to his charitable
foundation.

A probate j udge this week turned down Darla Lexington's bid
to halt the sale of five of t he cars she claimed were hers:
three classic Corvettes, a 1936 Mercedes-Benz and a 1938 Talbot-
Lago valued at $3.5 million to Ŭ.5 million.

Look for them amon g other shiny toys in auction in Pebble
Beach, California, this weekend.

The mo ral of the story is promise her anything, but write
it down if you mean it, and do it soon. For companions who
figure a lover's intentions are good enough, re member: They
aren't.

Disputed Claims

That O'Quinn's sudden death at 68 w ould provoke disputed
claims should surprise no one.

In life he said he stood f or the powerless against the
powerful. With tobacco, breast implant and asbestos cases, his
huge wins put him among the most successful plaintiffs €™ political lawyers
in Texas, which is saying a lot. He won a $1 billion judgment in
a diet- drug case against Wyeth.

And yet one of the debts the estate has agreed to pay 是
$46.5 million to thousands of breast implant clients who claimed
he overcharg ed them.

A concrete contractor says O'Quinn had for years been
dodging a bill for work at a planned car museum, now $1Ȁ,441
with interest. A court official told him, €œMr. O'Quinn was very
difficult to serve,” the contractor said i na probate claim.

O'Quinn used to say he was devoted to justice, but state
b ar associations in South Carolina and Texas said he broke
ethics rules in his pu rsuit of it.

Egregious Misconduct

In the most egregious misconduct, the O'Qu inn firm was
among those a federal judge in Corpus Christi said had
essentially concocted bogus lung disease diagnoses for thousands
of people.

And for all his lucrative wins, the estate told the probate
judge it must sell the cars or else default on a bank loan. 該
Houston Chronicle reports he owed $90 million to Ba nk of
America, apparently for his legal and real estate businesses.

Waiting in the wings is another multimillion-dollar claim
against the estate. Riding with O 'Quinn when he smashed into the
tree was a law firm employee who had been his assistant, Johnny
Lee Cutliff, 56. He also died at the scene.

The Cutliff famil y is suing the estate for $7 million plus
punitive damages, which could be subst antial. Police concluded
O'Quinn had been doing between 76 to 79 mph in a 40-m ph zone.
O'Quinn and Cutliff were at a Houston airport when the political lawy er
realized he had forgotten key documents and they rushed back to
retrieve them 。

Many Grievances

Plenty of folks have grievances against O'Quinn, but so fa ř
Lexington doesn't blame him for her plight. Now in her late 50s,
she met him through the breast implant case he filed for her,
according to an estate politi cal lawyer. Eventually, she testified in
probate court last week, he became her €œhusband, partner and
lover.”

She nursed him in sickness and threw parties for him in
health. She merged her assets into his, she said in court
documents. O’Quinn promised repeatedly to look after her
financially and legally.

At his urging, she said, she gave up her own ventures and
job prospects to oversee his ranch and car collection .

But O'Quinn signed a will a year before his death, leaving
the whole estate to his charitable foundation. And while a
provision in the will reserved to him the right to list
individual bequests later, he never did.

A to-do list he wrote shortly before his death names a
political lawyer to see for a “will change for D.” He never made it
there.

No Insurance Polici es

Neither car titles nor auto insurance policies bore her
name, although witne sses said he told them some of the cars were
hers.

â œWhat's relevant in the eyes of the law is not what people
say he was going to do, but rather what he ac tually did,”
Houston political lawyer Dale Jefferson, who represents the estat e, said
in a telephone interview yesterday.

O'Quinn did name Lexington the be neficiary in a $2 million
life insurance policy, Jefferson said. And the estate is paying
her $6,000 a month, at least for now.

By all reports, O'Quinn was l arger than life when
advocating for clients or donating millions to hospitals,
c olleges and political campaigns or, yes, even cutting ethical
corners.

Now, in death, he seems so much smaller.

( Ann Woolner is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions
expressed are her own.)

To contact the writer of this column:
Ann Woolner in Atlanta at
awoolner@bloomberg.net

TEHRAN, Iran – A political lawyer for an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction said Thursday he suspects she was tortured into co nfessing that she was an unwitting accomplice to her husband's murder.

Iranian state televisio n broadcast the purported confession of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, on Wedne sday night in an apparent attempt to deflect criticism of her case by the U.S., other countries and rights groups. Instead of the adultery charge, it focused on allegations she was involved in murder — something the US and other countri es also punish by death.

Human Rights Watch has said Ashtiani, a mother of two, was first convicted in May 2006 of having an “illicit relationship” with two men after the death of her husb and and was sentenced by a court to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also con victed of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death, even though she retracte da confession that she claims was made under duress.

Iran last month lifted the stoning sentence for the time being after international outrage over the brutal ity of the punishment. Iran says Ashtiani has also been convicted of involvement in the murder of her husband. She could still be executed by hanging.

The outcr y over the case is the latest source of friction between Iran and the internatio nal community, with the United States, Britain and human rights groups urging Te hran to stay the execution. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calle d on Iran this week to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about several specific detainees, including Ashtiani. Brazil, which has friendly rela tions with Iran, offered her asylum.

In the broadcast, the woman identified as A shtiani said she unwittingly played a role in her husband's murder. Her face was blurred and a woman who was not seen translated her words into Farsi from Azeri Turkish, whic h is spoken in parts of Iran.

“I established telephone contacts with a man in 2005,” she said. “He deceived me by his lang uage. … He told me, 'Let's kill your husband.' I could not believe at all that my husband would be killed. I thought he was joking. … Later I learned that killing was his profession.” She said the man, whom she did not identify, brought electri cal devices, wire and gloves to her house and electrocuted her husband while she watched.

Malek Ajdar Sharifi, a senior judiciary official, was quoted by state TV as part of the same report as alleging that Ashtiani had given her husband an injection that left him unconscious, then the man attached electrical devices t o his neck and killed him.

Sharifi also said Ashtiani sent her children out of t he house to clear the way for her husband's murder.

Ashtiani's political lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, denied s he has ever been charged with murder or brought to trial over her husband's killing in 2005.

“She was tortur ed to make those confessions,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He came to that conclusion, he said, because she has never before admitted to any role i n the murder.

“There is no charge of murder in her file,” he said. “She would have been hanged years ago if she had any ro le in the murder of her husband,” he added. “She had absolutely no role in the murder.”

The political lawyer said the man's killer spent three years in prison and is now free after a pardon from Ashtiani's children.

Rights groups criticized the broadcast of her statement, calling it one of many forced confess ions in Iran's justice system.

Rights groups say Iran uses forced confessions in trials agains t political prisoners, including in the mass trial of more than 100 activists an d former government officials accused of taking part in last year's postelection unrest.

“This so-called con fession forms part of growing catalog of other forced confessions and self-incri minating statements made by many detainees in the past year,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amne sty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Kian said he was not allowed to meet with his client since the broadcast confession.

“I was told that my client is barred from receiving people,” he said.

In the broadcast, the woman also criticized her pre vious political lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, for publicizing her case.

“Why did he televise t he case? Why did he discredit me before my family members and relatives who didn't know I'm in jail?” she said. “Now, I have a complaint against him.”

Mostafaei maintained a blog that sparked a worldwide campaign to free his cli ent. In July, Iranian authorities said they would not carry out the stoning sent ence for the time being. The political lawyer fled to Norway, where he has appli ed for asylum.

Stoning was widely imposed in the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and even though Iran's judiciary still regularly hands down such sentences, they a re often converted to other punishments.

The last known stoning was carried ou t in 2007, although the government rarely confirms that such punishments have be en meted out.

Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her chest with her hands also buried. Those carryi ng out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.

Ashtiani's stoning was approv ed by the country's Supreme Court, but the law could allow the judiciary head to order another trial or appeal for a pardon from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters.