Law Firm Involved In Toxic Baby Formula Coverup & Attorney Charges Clients For FAKE Lawsuits

A major corporate law firm helped cover up the fact that infants were getting brain damage from contaminated baby formula. Also, a prominent lawyer is headed to prison after spending years defrauding his clients. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A major corporate law firm helped cover up the fact that infants were getting brain damage from contaminated baby formula. Now, let me tell you this Jones Day, I have worked against Jones Day on more corporate conduct, I mean the ugliest of the ugliest, Farron. And these folks, it seems like they seek out, they literally seek out the worst clients that they can possibly represent because those worst climates, clients always pay the biggest bout of money, amount of money. But this Jones Day, I, I wanna spend a second on this. People don't understand when we talk about some of the appointments that Democrats make that are no different from Republicans, they don't understand what we're saying. Jones Day is the kind of law firm that defendants, that Democrats go to, to put on court appointments. That's always gone on and when we talk about how crazy the Democrats appointments are, that's what we're talking about.

Yeah.

We're talking about stuff like Eric Holder, for example, coming from Covington Burling in, in, in, in Washington DC, where all he did was represented corporate criminals. And no corporate criminal went to jail when he was in charge, no matter how bad the conduct was. But Jones Day is the kind of place they get these people. And I'm not, I'm not exaggerating. These people, it's, they're, they're, it's a scorched earth attitude. They, they don't care. They will represent Satan if Satan pays enough money,

That, that is absolutely the best way to put it. And with this particular case here, and I'm really kind of shocked that New York Times went after them as, as tough as they did in this piece they put out, but we're talking about infants. We're talking about babies that were left with permanent brain damage from contaminated baby formula put out there by Abbott. And what Abbott did, they hired Jones Day and Jones Day essentially flooded the plaintiff's lawyers with documents, huge boxes.

Oh, millions of millions of useless documents.

Yeah. And the reason they do that, the useless documents of course is the most important part is they say, okay, you gotta go through every one of these now. We'll wait. We'll sit here and drag this out for seven or eight years if we have to.

Well, it's not just that, it's not, it's not just, every one of these silk stocking corporate big firms do this.

Yeah.

They don't just give you a bunch of useless documents. I mean, it takes the staff around here, this is all we handle are these complex cases and so we have to staff up and go through 10 million documents. But the truth is they destroy so many documents. We catch 'em because there's always a pattern. I mean, it's a very distinctive pattern that we always catch 'em, but they want, they don't think a thing about destroying documents to say, yeah, we knew this stuff was killing people. Yeah, we kept it out there anyway. And yeah, we made a lot of money. They would think nothing about destroying that document. And unfortunately the federal courts don't punish 'em enough every time we catch 'em and we catch 'em all the time. And you say, judge, really, you're just gonna let this go? You're gonna what, hit 'em for a hundred thousand dollars? These, these people should lose their license to practice law.

Well, and I think a lot of people need to understand too, this is why when you have these very complex cases and the story points out too, these are little local lawyers, you know, they run their little local commercials. They have a staff of five people.

Yeah.

And then suddenly at their doorstep they end up with 20 million documents to go through. They can't do it for their little local client. And it's, it's so heartbreaking that these families who now have a child that is gonna be dependent on them for eternity.

Yeah.

Because this tainted baby formula.