{"id":949,"date":"2002-09-12T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2002-09-12T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/09\/simon-gets-a-break\/"},"modified":"2002-09-12T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2002-09-12T20:37:34","slug":"simon-gets-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/12\/simon-gets-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon gets a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn the best news the Simon campaign has had since winning the primary, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-091202simon_wr.story\">Judge Overturns Verdict Against Simon&#8217;s Firm<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A judge today threw out a politically damaging $78 million civil fraud verdict against GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon&#8217;s family investment firm, ruling that William E. Simon &#038; Sons and other investors were the fraud victims. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Davis is paying protestors to say the jury got it right and the judge is a stooge of Gov. Wilson, who appointed him to the Muni Court years ago.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best news the Simon campaign has had since winning the primary, the Judge Overturns Verdict Against Simon&#8217;s Firm A judge today threw out a politically damaging $78 million civil fraud verdict against GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon&#8217;s family investment firm, ruling that William E. Simon &#038; Sons and other investors were the fraud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/12\/simon-gets-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simon gets a break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-fj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}