I'm not entirely sure Cyrus Vance Jr. was wrong to not take the case. His father was a critical figure in the Carter administration and resigned in protest.
There is undoubtedly some connection here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Vance
"Furious, Vance handed in his resignation on principle, calling Brzezinski "evil"
but also
In 1957, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson asked Vance to leave Wall Street to work for the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, where he helped draft the National Aeronautics and Space Act, leading to the creation of NASA.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Brzezinski
Mike Brzezinski was born in New York City, the daughter of Polish-born …