CLW readers will recognize the themes set forth in this letter, sent today by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Ranking Senate Commerce Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz and reported first here.
While addressed to a law firm engaged by numerous progressive elected officials—to which these politicians promised so many millions out of their taxpayers’ supposed damages—the letter’s emphasis on the previously obscured, private underwriting of these “contingency fee” lawsuits reminds CLW of the importance of the question what did these elected officials know about that, and when did they know it?