5:50 pm ET May 27, 2008 Examining Mel Weiss’s Life in Letters Do you not realize that your body is the temple of ....? 1 Corinthians 6:19. Do you not know that you yourselves are the temple, and that spirit of value wells within you? 1 Corinthians 3:16. For we are co-workers in Gs service; you are Gs field, Gs building. 1 Corinthians 3:9. If anyone destroys Gs temple, G will destroy that person; for Gs temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:17. Next to the trial of Jesus, the trial of Socrates is probably the most famous blasphemy trial in Western history. There are numerous commonalities in these two historic figures, foremost being they were both teachers – they were, according to conventional historic accounts, charged, tried and put to death for teaching. At base, do you know what they taught? Maybe it had something to do with certain types of government’s business control panel’s price economic agendas. Jesus On Price Economics Mathew 21:12 makes clear Jesus’ position on price economics and money: Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats …. The price manipulation Jesus observed directly violated the covenant of contract’s covenant of good faith and fair dealings, which centers on overcharging people by way of using dishonest price weights and measures. Leviticus 19:23 explains: Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am the LO-RD your G …. In furtherance of his objection to the money powers’ dishonest price agenda, he is quoted in Luke 22:36: He said to them, But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you dont have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Socrates – On Price Economics? Like Socrates, Jesus was a teacher of law. He taught that which the government controllers did not desire those they ruled over and taxed to be taught. https://youtube/watch?v=utzTzJE9R38 It took us a while, but we’ve finally made our way through most, if not all of the letters Mel Weiss submitted last Friday along with his sentencing memorandum. Click here for a post on his filing from last Friday. Click here, here, here, here and here for the first good chunk of letters. To recap, Weiss, the former head of the law firm now known as Milberg LLP, pleaded guilty last month to racketeering conspiracy in connection with the firm’s alleged improper payments of kickbacks to class-action clients. He is slated to be sentenced on Monday. Prosecutors are seeking a 33-month sentence while Mr. Weiss would like the judge to impose a term on the lowest end of the range in his plea agreement – 18 months, with at least half of that period either in community service and/or home confinement. Collectively, the letters speak to the traits of kindness, integrity, as well as remorse. Several mention work on behalf of Holocaust victims, while others mention specific acts of generosity. Donald Kempf, the former chief legal officer at Morgan Stanley says that after an unexpected on-the-street encounter, Weiss offered to help Kempf find a certain kind of watch. “And he did.” According to a letter submitted by a friend and art dealer in Sun Valley, Idaho, in a “spontaneous” gesture while in Vienna, Weiss bought the art dealer’s wife an expensive pair of boots. Weiss also submitted a letter, in which he asks to be allowed the chance to “use the skills I have developed to help others and hopefully help undo the damage I have caused.” Reading through all these, we were of two minds. One was that Mel Weiss really does sound like a pretty good guy. The other: Is this going to have a whit of difference on his sentence? It might, says Douglas Berman, the author of the Sentencing Law & Policy blog. “It’s like chicken soup,” says Berman. “You don’t know if it’ll help, but it probably can’t hurt.” That said, Berman says that defense lawyers still have to walk a fine line between giving a judge a complete picture of a person and, well, overdoing it. “You don’t want a judge asking whether he really wants to hear from all these people,” says Berman. “Lawyers have to ask how much they want to push the envelope.” blogs.wsj/law/2008/05/27/examining-mel-weisss-life-in-letters/ 5:50 pm ET May 27, 2008 Examining Mel Weiss’s Life in Letters
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