How Does Pacenti Do It?

One minute he's seated at his typewriter pounding out a story on Claudio Osorio being criminally indicted, and the next he is at the Four Seasons glad-handing at the DBR's "Most Successful Lawyer" soiree.

Because he is a newspaperman, that's how.

Osorio was charged with fleecing investors of $40 million. The indictment also charges Osorio and co-conspiritors falsely obtained a $10 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a U.S. government agency that promotes U.S. investments abroad to foster the development and growth of free markets. The loan was intended to build a factory and 500 homes in Haiti for families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.

I leave any discussion of all this to Rumpole and DOM who know what this means, but I observe that allegedly scamming Chris Korge and the government might increase your chances of being charged with a crime.

Ernie Souchak Pacenti reports that Osorio was to appear today before our pal U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman.

Begging the question: what song might the good Judge invoke to support his ruling?



N.B.: Two free movie tickets first class tickets to Jackson Hole and a week at my condo to anyone who scores a picture of Rumpole cocked and in a compromising position at the Public Defender office party.