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 The Failure of the LIUNA “Internal Reform Effort”
2. LACK OF INDEPENDENCE
2.7 Eggleston’s Conflicts
LIUNA’s Appellate Officer, W. Neil Eggleston, the person that hears all “internal reform effort appeals and makes final decisions on members’ and bosses’ fate, is also tainted by several glaring conflicts of interest.  Like Luskin, several Eggleston clients are wrapped up in this Adminstration’s scandals, but unlike Luskin one Eggleston client is Bill Clinton himself.  Eggleston is Clinton’s lead attorney for executive privilege matters.  Eggleston argued Clinton’s case for executive privilege before the Supreme Court in the summer of 1998. See: David Stout, “Clinton Lawyer Appeals Ruling on Privilege,” N.Y. Times Aug. 22, 1998.

Eggleston is also U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis H. Herman’s lead attorney for combating Herman’s independent counsel. Herman is in trouble over alleged illegal campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee and seeking to benefit a company in which she had a financial interest while working at the White House.  See: Deborah Billings, “Independent Counsel Investigating Herman Plans to Act Quickly in Fairness to Secretary,” BNA: Daily Labor Report May 29, 1998.

Eggleston has three other connections to the Clinton Adminstration.  Eggleston served as Associate Counsel to the President from 1993-94.  Also according to testimony before the U.S. House Government  Reform and Oversight Committee on November 6-7, 1997, Cheryl D. Mills, Deputy Counsel to the President and Dimitri Nionakis, Associate Counsel to the President, were.are both clients of Eggleston.

Eggleston connections to the scandal-ridden Clinton Adminstration are troubling due to the nexus between Arthur A. Coia and Bill Clinton as detailed by Eugene Methvin, John Mulligan and Byron York (cited above). Eggleston’s representation of Clinton, Herman and the others, furthers the argument that the LIUNA ”internal reform effort “ is not independent.
 

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