Democratic Congressman back indicted law firm

The New York Times reports:

The embattled securities class-action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman received some political backing last week with the release of a statement signed by four Democrats from the House of Representatives condemning last month's indictment in Los Angeles of the firm on criminal charges.

"The Justice Department's crusade against trial lawyers, the first line in the average citizen's protection against corporate greed, has taken a new low in the indictment of an entire leading law firm in the plaintiffs' bar," said the statement.

The statement was signed by three representatives from New York - Charles Rangel, Carolyn McCarthy and Gary Ackerman - and Robert Wexler from Florida. One of the founders of the law firm, Melvyn Weiss, is a high-profile fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.

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