Date: March 10th, 2008

Declaration of independence

10 March, 2008 (10:50) | Ecosystems, GSEs, Lending, Markets, Regulation and Reform, US News | No comments

When most people threaten to sue, it’s simply a yawn-inducing tactic. 
 

Somebody’s suing me?
 
When a state attorney general does it, the tactic has more effect. 
 
Litigators!  Litigators!
 
Of such threat vaporware is New York state attorney general Andrew Cuomo a past master, as he recently demonstrated by parlaying his face-down cards into an important settlement action.  […]