North Carolina: Lawyer Hired to Represent Agency in Spill Inquiry Once Worked for Duke Energy

[Scuba]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/north-carolina-lawyer-hired-to-represent-agency-in-spill-inquiry-once-worked-for-duke-energy.html

The lawyer hired to represent North Carolina’s environmental agency during a federal investigation into its regulation of Duke Energy’s coal ash dumps once represented the utility company in a different criminal inquiry. The State Department of Environment and Natural Resources hired the lawyer, Mark T. Calloway of Charlotte, to help respond to 20 grand jury subpoenas the agency has received after the Feb. 2 spill at the Eden plant of Duke Energy, which coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic sludge.

A former federal prosecutor who now specializes in white-collar criminal defense cases, Mr. Calloway represented Duke Energy during a 2004 federal investigation into the company’s accounting practices. An environmental agency spokesman, Drew Elliot, said Monday that he saw no conflict of interest.

Why is NC's envirnomental agency lawyering up? And why choose this guy?

[JohnRogan]

1. No conflict there!

Gee, I wonder what the result will be,.......

[Shrike47]

2. Why choose this guy? Maybe because it's his area of expertise?

I have represented clients on both sides of several issues over the decades because those are the issues where I really know the law. Not to say that's why this attorney was chosen, but it happens.

[Triana]

3. "no conflict of interest."

Riiiiiight.



As Mom would say: "They've got it all sewed up."

Bastards.