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The experiences of two others—Miller and Martin—may be more instructive because they illustrate how a Fed chair can disappoint a president even when inflation isn’t the reason.
“Bill Miller had a terrible time—particularly, his first four or five months—because it didn’t occur to him that he had to get a majority,” recalled Nancy Teeters, a Fed governor who served with him, in a 2008 interview by the Fed.
Weeks later, however, he backed out of the agreement, and a judge ruled he could do so because he had not yet entered his guilty plea in court.
From Los Angeles Times
Defense lawyers Brian Klein and Axel contended in court filings that Puig, who is from Cuba, was confused because of his language barrier and a dual diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
From Los Angeles Times
Steven Gebelin, who represented Puig in 2021 and 2022, testified at trial that his then-client tried to be helpful during the interview but, because the interpreter’s Spanish dialect differed from Puig’s, his answers were translated poorly.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
