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Jerked Around
How Howie discombobulates Dems. Plus: Boxer's negative file on Cox.
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br> Sen. Barbara Boxer may be putting on a tolerant face for the Senate confirmation hearing for Rep. Christopher Cox , President Bush's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, but that doesn't mean that she isn't going to try to embarrass Cox or the Bush Administration. /p>Already, Capitol Hill reporters have been receiving material from sources connected to Boxer dealing with Cox's role as a securities lawyer in the 1980s for the law firm of Latham & Watkins. Cox did work for First Pension Corp. and the company's founder, William E. Cooper, who pleaded guilty to felony charges in connection with the First Pension scandal that saw investors lose more than $100 million.
Cox was never drawn into the scandal, and there has never been any evidence that he was ever involved or even aware of the company's illegal behavior.
p>But Boxer staffers are apparently trotting out pieces of an opposition research file the California junior senator's campaign has kept on Cox, and the First Pension story is part of it. br> /p>
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