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Real Estate/Development,
Government

Aug. 2, 2012

Housing bust: Who is to blame?

As all lawyers know, when witnesses are called to testify they must swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Gideon Kanner

Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School

USC Law School

As all lawyers know, when witnesses are called to testify they must swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Why the gobbledygook? Answer: because letting witnesses tell only a part of the story enables them to falsify what really happened. I was reminded of this verity while reading Harold Meyerson's op-ed in the L.A. Times of July 25, 2012, p. A13, titled "A Tale of Two Cities." There, Meyerson, a fully credentialed grandee of the Washington Post editorial page...

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