Pork barrel politics
The Legal Services Corporation, the federally-funded outfit responsible, in its turn, for funding legal-aid clinics across the country, is seemingly guilty of having its hand in the till. The LSC is claiming that it and its member legal clinics are turning away clients for lack of funding. Yet LSC officials get an upscale office, where the LSC pays a much higher rent than the rental fees paid by its neighbors. While LSC member clinics are forced to practice the legal profession in threadbare... Sign in to see full entry.