Miers Land Scam (little bitty one though)

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

(October 22, 2005 -- 10:48 PM EDT // link)

Knight-Ridder ...

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.

The windfall came after a judge who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Miers' law firm appointed a close professional associate of Miers and an outspoken property-rights activist to the three-person panel that determined how much the state should pay.

Kerik?
-- Josh Marshall