Only in New Jersey would an Attorney General facing an ethics investigation by an indepedent prosecutor and calls for resignation and even impeachment hire a lobbying firm to handle her personal public relations. The Record reported this weekend that Zulima Farber has hired the highly-respected Mickey Faigen of Issues Management to advise her on how to handle the media.
Issues Management is owned by Lowenstein Sandler, the Roseland law firm where Farber was a partner before her appointment as Attorney General. The firm's website says that Issues Management "has
repeatedly been ranked New Jersey's number one lawyer-lobbying firm." Among the clients for whom Issues Management lobbies state government is the St. Barnabas Health Care System, which recently agreed to pay a $265 million settlement on federal charges that it defrauded Medicare. As a result of that settlement, nine smaller New Jersey hospitals have filed a lawsuit against St. Barnabas.
From the Issues Management website: "Issues Management leverages the knowledge and experience of our senior staff in regulation, legislation and crisis communication to generate distinct, high impact strategies. We execute them with intensity. Wherever public and private concerns intersect, we know the landscape; we know the players; we think beyond the familiar."
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"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to understand that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
-Ronald Reagan
maybe Mikcey can help her get her old job back at Lowenstein...
maybe Mikcey can help her get her old job back at Lowenstein...
Who will be <a href="http://www.ajjan.com/2006/07/zulima-farber-
Who will be paying for Farber's poor judgement?
Zulima and Hamlet can't even get Shakespeare to write them out o
Zulima and Hamlet can't even get Shakespeare to write them out of this!
Can't wait to see the ELEC filing on this one. It certainly seem
Can't wait to see the ELEC filing on this one. It certainly seems that Mickey and the AG will have to report this as activity to impact a "governmental process."