Curiouser and curiouser...

So, a few breads back I posted >>9816719 (pb) about how Covington and Burling, the law firm that fucked over General Flynn with the guilty plea advice before Sidney Powell came along, and how that firm had its office in New York located in the NY Times building.

Been thinking about that some more, and I'm sure it's occurred to more than one anon that it's a mighty convenient way to pass info from an "in-the-know'' International Law Firm like C&B to the NYT.

But even more than that, a few other things struck me.

First (I'm a lawfag, so I know first-hand what I am saying about this shit), there is the issue of conflicts of interest generally. Now, one of the ways the big boys make sure that their competitors can't use a firm is to consult with a firm and, thus, disqualify them from representing competitors. However, a big firm like C&B will, if it wants to, represent both sides of a transaction and likely get away with it (like representing the DNC and Mike Flynn at the same time) unless they are badly caught, i.e. by Sidney Powell. And make no mistake, such a firm will represent its own greedy interests first - and if they'll do shit like that, they are not above using insider knowledge about one client to fuck another one over.

But it gets worse. So, a law firm like that would have heavily invested in secure communications (KEK! Howdy, NSA!). That would be an ideal channel, in their little minds, to send talking points shit from DC to NY and run it right upstairs to Maggie and Co. for publication. How much you wanna bet the wires that carry the 4am talking points go through, at least at some point, the offices of Covington and Burling???

So far, all this is accurate but speculative. Ok, let's get to some facts. You can verify all this at https://www.cov.com/en/professionals

Next, I wanted to see what these fuckers were made of. You know, get a flavor for the people, aside from the three known scumbags of Tricia Anderson, Lanny Breuer and Eric Holder. So I took a look at the personnel in their offices and a few things stood out. For starters, there are about 800 or so attorneys in the firm (the total number of personnel listed on their site is 1375 and that includes some relevant non-attorney people).

>>9819769

Part 2

Here’s some things you’ll notice if you look at their personnel by office:

1 – EVERYONE listed in DC is a fuckin’ partner.

2 – NY is the largest office, with about 188 attorneys, and oddly enough the staff with Chinese names are larger than one would expect…or maybe not, since the firm also has offices in Shanghai and Peking (I refuse to call it Beijing, fuck the ChiComs.)

3 – Well, fuck a duck, there’s also a metric shit ton of Chinese in the LA office, in the San Fran office, and the Palo Alto office it’s almost HALF.

4 – Even more curious, a few of the Chinese-name attorneys are not pictured. Hmmmmm…makes surveillance harder, don’t it?

5 – You’d think, for a firm so heavily invested in Chinese-speaking business, their offices in Shanghai, Peking and possibly Seoul would be huge, right? Nah. About 13 to 15 each office. Top folks are all round-eyes, but the minions are Chinee (a few Koreans in Seoul for flavor).

6 – you’d think there would be a shit ton of Arab names in Dubai, right? Fuck no. Buncha white folk, a couple of Arab names thrown in.

7 – So what about London, Brussels, etc? More white guys, but a few of them sounded kinda dubious. Let’s take a look at them…

‘’’Lord Francis Maude’’’ - this guy’s resume might as well read “money laundering expert.” He’s a former British Minister of State for Trade and Investment and Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster-General. He also has had some unsavory run-ins with his own personal investments, namely being chairman of Jubilee Investment Trust which held 21% of American pornographic actress Jill Kelly's adult DVD business, and chairman of the Mission Marketing Group, which has advertised for WKD drinks and Playboy. Maude also was a director in a company that did sub-prime mortages. This shit comes from Weaky Pedia, I know, so it’s weak sauce…but don’t gimme no shit, this was a tiring little dig and considering the info I’m inclined to believe this is fairly accurate, at least as a launching point, on this bastard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Maude#Career_outside_of_Parliament:_2016%E2%80%93present

Also on staff in London are these assholes:

Jean De Ruyt

Péter Balás

Sir Michael Leigh

The bios you can find on each of these cats at Covington’s own website is a fawning blowjob of “oh-fuck-but-I’m-important” bullshit, but in particular Sir Michael Leigh is a hard anti-Brexiteer. (Sorry, Britfags) Here’s some sauce on him from March 2019, publishing a whole bunch of high-falutin’ warning about you can't really leave the EU crap in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/27/how-britain-got-it-so-wrong-brexit-european-union

Balas and De Ruyt, short version, are both EU ministerial types doing trade and also working in the Caucasian areas (think Ukraine and Turkey, among others). They smell bad.

So, to wrap up, here’s the deal. This organization is fucking everybody, looks like a convenient hole to park ChiCom handlers, and does not appear to owe any loyalty to anyone but itself.

Why do I say that?

Well, what happens if you have offices in China and the USA? Do you think, maybe, the Chinese (having different and more intrusive laws) would demand to have access to whatever’s in the firm’s files? And if so, who does Covington and Burling owe it’s loyalty to?

Can we ever be assured a multi-national law firm isn’t handing over shit right and left to whoever demands it outside the US?

That seems like a great way to back-channel without revealing you’re doing it.

Have a nice evening, Anons. Imma go catch a cig and go to bed.

>>9819832

Well, in this case, as I read it I realized that this could be taken the wrong way, so let me say this up front - the example I gave was just a hypothetical. Keep in mind that Perkins Coie represented the DNC (although it wouldn't surprise me if C&B had a hand in with them, too).

As for the penalties/remedies of a conflict of interest, it can range from money damages, disbarment of some attorneys, loss of clients, and even (DRASTIC remedy here) potentially the judicial "break up" of the law firm, where chunks of business and non-offending lawyers get divvied up. I cannot ever remember seeing that happen by judicial action, but it is possible.

The vast majority of times it's a penalty and some action against an attorney (or a few), a client or two gets their noses out of joint for being treated like shit, and they take their business and leave. Other than that, the firm will keep on truckin'.

>>9819876

The sauce mostly comes from the law firm itself.

They absolutely DO have their hands in IT/IP, pretty much anything international. Their website also allows you to look for their lawyers based on the area of law (meaning what kind or subject in the law) they practice - here's the link:

https://www.cov.com/en/practices-and-industries

>>9819972

You're very welcome. Imma wait to the end of this bread to answer anything that comes up, and then go catch a smoke.

As for Sidney…they need to put up a statue of her in DC.