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Date Posted: 12/ 7/05 8:11pm
Latest saga shows Fieger is as entertaining as ever
Web-posted Dec 6, 2005 by the Oakland Press
EDITORIAL
Just like the often-annoying Energizer Bunny from the television commercials, Geoffrey Fieger just never stops. This time, it's the flamboyant Oakland County attorney against what he believes is a Republican-led conspiracy that's out to get him.
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That was his spin after federal officials executed a search warrant at his office last week looking for evidence of possible finance violations from the 2004 presidential campaign.
Sometimes you just have to chuckle and wonder whether he's serious.
Anyway, to Fieger, the reason for all this is simple: He's a Democrat, and we have a Republican Oakland County prosecutor, a Republican state attorney general and a Republican administration in Washington, D.C. "McCarthyism all over again," he says. This all stems from a rather bizarre exchange last month between Fieger and the previously mentioned GOP state attorney general, Mike Cox, and - in Fieger's eyes - his coconspirator, Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca.
It was on Nov. 9 that Cox held an emotional news conference admitting he had an extramarital affair before becoming attorney general. He said he was going public because Fieger knew of the infidelity and threatened to expose him unless Cox halted a state investigation into whether Fieger illegally funded a $457,000 ad campaign against state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Markman last year.
Some would call that blackmail. "Nonsense" is what Fieger called it. Gorcyca was leaning toward extortion but said he didn't have enough evidence to prove it and has turned the whole mess over to the Attorney Grievance Commission. All this started the previous month when Fieger announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination to run against Cox next year. Some television programs should be so compelling and entertaining. You have to be relatively new to the metropolitan area to be surprised at any of this. Fieger burst onto the scene 15 years ago as an unknown attorney who quickly gained national prominence by successfully defending another obscure county resident, Jack Kevorkian, on murder charges for assisting in the suicide of Janet Adkins.
Fieger would successfully defend Kevorkian seven more times before they parted ways and Kevorkian was fi nally found guilty and shipped off to prison.
Then it was on to politics. Fieger would spend about $6 million of his own money in winning the 1996 Democratic gubernatorial nomination and then getting trounced by John Engler in the general election.
Through it all, there was the childish name-calling: descriptions of Engler we won't repeat here, labeling an appeals court judge "amazingly stupid" and three others as jackasses and akin to Nazi leaders.
Then, there's the other Geoffrey Fieger, the one who donated $4 million to the Michigan State University Detroit College of Law.
For better or worse, it's a good bet Fieger will be challenging and entertaining us for years to come.
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