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Washington lawyer Michael Levy has been representing former Patriots video employee Matt Walsh for more than a month now. League insiders and members of the media have been trying to figure out how an assistant golf pro in Hawaii came to be represented by a guy who wields a lot of juice . . . and who likely charges north of five bills per hour for his services.
In a puff piece masquerading as a feature in the New York Times, Levy explains that Walsh was referred to him by a lawyer whose firm previously did legal work for the Pats.
So now the unasked (and thus unanswered) question is how Walsh got connected with the guy whose firm previously did work for the Pats, and who the other lawyer and firm are. (OK that’s three questions.)
But the Times didn’t ask, so Levy didn’t tell.
Levy also didn’t address his financial relationship with Walsh. But Levy doesn’t need to. His compensation for this project won’t come in the form of dollars and/or cents, but via all the times his name gets mentioned in the press.
Not to mention a puff piece in the New York Times.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
GOD works in mysterious ways when bringing justice to wrong-doers.
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March 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
So, does Walsh have the goods or what? If all he’s holding is a pair of threes Levy should not be allowed back at the table.
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March 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
So where is the smoking gun on this story? All the Pats/Belichick haters out there and we don’t hear a peep for another week after Goodell and the lawyer were supposedly close to an agreement for Walsh to talk? Looks like this thing is just going to peter out; big to do about nothing. Sorry haters.
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March 15th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
God indeed does work in mysterious ways but what about Goodell, Levy, Walsh, et al? It shouldn’t be this mysterious.
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March 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Wow coopdeville i guess Belichick is the only coach to ever try to gain an advantage. Hate Vs. the Pats equals green with envy that your coach didn’t do everything humanly possible to gain an advantage.
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March 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Well drock he isn’t the only coach to effort gaining an unfair advantage, I’m sure you’ve heard of the “snow plow game”, another proud patriot moment. None the less, it’s hard to be green with envy about a coach who cost his team a first round pick.
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March 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Why is there no smoking gun?
Because they haven’t let Walsh speak yet geniuses.
And when they do, they are going to seal or burn all evidence he gives them.
Apparently Roger Goodell doesn’t believe that “doing whatever possible to win” is valiant, given his pressure to have increased checks and balances for cheating, and taking away a first round draft pick from the Patriots.
What a freaking joke, I understand you guys like your team, but try to think outside your homerism an understand what a threat to the integrity of the league is at stake here.
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March 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
are there any other fans of The Wire who are weary of a another lawyer with the named M. Levy???
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March 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Follow the money folks……With the great Senator from Penn. the Honorable Arlen Spector. He is the best Senator that Comcast & ESPN’s money can buy.
As Comcast contributes heavily to Spector and Comcast & the NFL Network continue to go at it - Wouldn’t y’all think that maybe, just maybe Levy & Walsh has found their gold mine with these folks??
The Patriots continue to be dragged across the coals for a minor rule infraction from last September and are simply a convenient excuse for the power brokers to get attention.
Wake up fans of the NFL…….
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March 16th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Let’s get this straight . . . Brian McNamee is compelled to tell the truth or he goes to jail, while Matt Walsh does not have to prove he is telling the truth nor can he go to jail.
WTF is up with that?
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March 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Excuse me coopdeville because you seem to be so astute picking out all the problems with the pats and belichick I guess your coach or GM has no skeletons in the closet. Besides the fact if you were such a historian of the game then I guess it just happened to be an oversight on your part that it was actually a snow brush attached to a John Deere ride around tractor and not a snowplow. And in case you have already run out of Kleenex crying about the Pats, at that time in the NFL rulebook there was no such rule prohibiting such things. I guess Jimmy Johnson is a cheater and the Cowboys should have one of their picks taken away too, right?
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March 16th, 2008 at 11:09 am
To JRHSD,
What kind of homerism are you talking about? Let’s just list them in order: Romeo Crennel, Charlie Weis, ERIC MANGINI. If any of you are interested to know take a wild guess what Mangini’s job title was when he first started working for the Pats, VIDEO ASSISTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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March 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am
So, coopdeville are you saying that the Pats are the only wrong doer’s in the NFL? Are you so naive to think that? Did you understand that Belichick DID NOT cheat against the Jets and that the camera was taken very early on in the game. Belichick was fined because of the video camera being on the sidelines…that is against the rules. I think these are two completely different things. You have accusations of cheating, but no proof and you have a video camera on the sidelines that should not be there and the tape in the camera shows no cheating. You’ve hung this guy out to dry when there has been NO proof that he cheated. If Belichick had been cheating all along don’t you think Goodell would of imposed much stricter consequences? I thinks so and I think Belichick would of been suspended.
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March 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Well onanygivensunday, I’m glad you’ve convinced yourself, because nobody else is.
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