Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.Harriet.
The windfall came after a judge who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Miers' law firm appointed a close professional associate of Miers' and an outspoken property-rights activist to the three-person panel that determined how much the state should pay.
The resulting $106,915 payout to the Miers family in 2000 was despite the state's objections to the ``excessive'' amount and to the process used to set the price. The panel recommended paying nearly $5 a square foot for land that was valued at less than 30 cents a square foot.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Miers windfall brought to light
The San Jose Mercury reports:
