U.S. Attorney Debra Yang describes the public justice system as "doing the right thing for the public, encapsulating what issues are facing the public." She describes the responsibilities of the U.S. Attorney’s office and how President Bush appointed her to the powerful position. She explains the difference between her position and that of District Attorney; "because I am not elected to this position, so I don't have to go out and raise monies and ask the community to do things for me... I am accountable to the public to do justice but I don't ever have to ask them for something else. Also, "I have tremendous amount of discretion that's given to me in this particular position, over what kinds of crimes to address, what kinds of cases to bring and the like".
Los Angeles – Today, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved Debra Wong Yang to the Los Angeles Police Commission. Commissioner Yang will assume her post immediately and attend her first Police Commission meeting next Tuesday, September 29, 2009. She will be joining Police Commission President John W. Mack, Vice President Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Commissioner Robert M. Saltzman, and Commissioner Alan J. Skobin.
Gonzales on why White House Counsel Harriet Miers wanted Lewis prosecutor Debra Yang fired: Because she was sensitive to Yang's financial situation and that she wanted a more lucrative job. Said Gonzales: "Ms. Miers may have known about Ms. Yang's concern about being able to remain on the job due to financial reasons."
Yang was born in 1959 to Cantonese parents in Los Angeles. Her father was a successful CPA. The family later moved to Eagle Rock. Yang received her Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School.
Yang served as President of The Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, where she played an instrumental role in the creation of this new landmark for Southern California. Yang was a founding member and officer of the first Asian American Bar Association in Chicago, and she has been an officer and board member of the Southern California Chinese Lawyer Association.
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Students of political philosophy recognize in the argumentum ad
antiquitam the central core of the arguments of Edmund Burke.
Put at its simplest, it is the fallacy of supposing that something is
good or right simply because it is old.
This is the way it's always been done, and this is the way we'll continue
to do it.
(It brought poverty and misery before, and it will do so again...)
Debra Wong Yang the US attorney for Central California (Los Angeles) left office on November 11, 2006 a month ahead of the more well known firings of 8 US attorneys on December 7, 2006. She had been investigating Representative Jerry Lewis. Part of this was an offshoot of USA-San Diego Carol Lam’s investigation into Representative Duke Cunningham and defense contractor and briber Brent Wilkes. I say part because Jerry Lewis has been rated one of the most corrupt members of Congress. And then there are the interesting connections. The Cerberus group, for example, which gave large contributions to Lewis and his organizations, owns IAP the outfit involved in the Walter Reed scandal. As for Debra Yang, after resigning for "personal" reasons, she joined the law firm representing Lewis and received a highly unusual $1.5 million dollar signing bonus.
After Yang’s departure, the Lewis investigation went nowhere for 7 months due to "budget cuts". Then career prosecutor Michael Emmick was put in charge of the case in June 2007. Emmick is perhaps best known for being Ken Starr’s chief assistant in the Monica Lewinsky affair. He is set, however, to retire in September 2007. An exception could be made if he were working on an important case, but the investigation of one of the most corrupt members of Congress does not apparently meet this threshold.