Reply #9: Background on Yang and her rise to receive a 1.5 mill salary w Ted Olson:

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October 17, 2006, 8:40 am
L.A. U.S. Attorney Debra Yang Resigns; Will Join Gibson Dunn
Posted by Peter Lattman
In the latest example of a government prosecutor jumping to a high-paying law firm, Debra Wong Yang, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, has resigned and will join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner.

During Yang’s tenure, her office has spearheaded several high-profile corporate-crime cases, including the indictment of Milberg Weiss and a $615 million settlement with Boeing Co. earlier this year. Yang, 47, serves on the DOJ’s Corporate Fraud Task Force, an interagency group created in July 2002 amid white-collar scandals.

Prior to her appointment by President Bush in 2002, Yang was a California state judge. Before that she was an assistant U.S. attorney. A 1985 graduate of Boston College Law School, she also worked in private practice.

“When I worked on the big cases here in the office, I really enjoyed the practice when it not only involved legal issues but also strategic decision making,” said Yang, who will leave her post on Nov. 10 and join Gibson Dunn at the beginning of the year. “Working on those complex cases made me want to go out and practice law again.”

At Gibson Dunn, which has more than 800 lawyers, she will be based in the firm’s Los Angeles’s office and co-chair its “crisis-management” group along with Theodore Olson, the former Solicitor General, and Randy Mastro, a former federal prosecutor and deputy to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Members of that group are currently handling internal investigations for companies ensnared by the stock-options backdating scandal. U.S. attorneys and judges are hot properties for law firms looking to win business from companies conducting internal investigations or in need of hiring a government-mandated corporate monitor.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/10/17/los-angeles-us-attorney-debra-yang-resigns-will-join-gibson-dunn/



Did Debra Wong Yang get $1.5 million to stop investigating Rep. Jerry Lewis?
by james risser

Fri Apr 13, 2007 at 08:30:48 AM PDT

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Here is her tangled story, an iceberg-tip view of the Rep. Jerry Lewis scandals which she was investigating as a US Attorney, and the treacherous firm of Bush Crime Family consigliere in Los Angeles who serve as Defense Council for Rep. Lewis, the same firm where Yang currently receives her blood-money.

We will soon enough get to her official bio from the firm that paid her $1.5 million, Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles--the same firm that, coincidentally enough, was defending Rep. Jerry Lewis of California. Let me say that again so there is no confusion: She was in charge of the case against Rep. Jerry Lewis. He is being defended against these charges by Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles. Ms Yang received $1.5 million from the firm defending Rep. Lewis, Gibson Dunn, to leave the Justice Department where she was prosecuting Rep. Lewis. And, remarkably, this is the second time that Jerry Lewis has hired a former US Attorney to handle his defense. Thanks to the fine work of TPMuckracker from June 2006, we find that Lewis did the same thing with Robert Bonner, a member in good-standing of the Bush Crime Family since Daddy Bush made Bonner his Drug Czar in the 1990s through the present!

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/13/113048/369