"I forgot to check my calendar," a DC lawyer reader writes. "Apparently today is the day that the entire ... Cuban exile infrastructure that has controlled US Cuba policy for the last fifty years gets indicted: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/613611.html." The same U.S. Attorney in the Pharmed case above, Alex Acosta, is also prosecuting UBS for tax evasion, he further notes. Coincidence? "I have a really hard time believing that the same U.S. Attorney brings two tax evasion cases in one month and they are not related," he says.

Posted by Laura at July 22, 2008 04:57 PM