My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
Right now at 11 clock south jersey homeowner is picking up the pieces after a storm boulevard the house up its foundation and into the waters up cape pay counting. Good evening im natasha brown. The home was swept away. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson tells us what the man who owns this house is going to do now. Reporter here today gone tomorrow. By 2 by 4s and you know, hopeful p. M. Well rebuild. Reporter with the side of his home broken and now submerge d we stumbled upon owner with the same disposition neighbors have come to no him buy half naked smile surfer dude attitude. Its oath wood i got a hammer i got a saw. Reporter neighbors were a little more anxious many waking up to the sound of the homes biologies coming up. Past the half dozens homes in middle township until it finally stopped. One of those things youve seen for years wondered when it was going to happen. Reporter he admits the home has been a structural mess falling into the channel for years spite attempts
I got a saw. Reporter neighbors were a little more anxious many waking up to the sound of the homes biologies coming up. Past the half dozens homes in middle township until it finally stopped. One of those things youve seen for years wondered when it was going to happen. Reporter he admits the home has been a structural mess falling into the channel for years spite attempts to fix it. He says the wind and water level of this storm was simply the last straw. Stop the violence. Current was so strong i looked tempers 16 inch 60 feet long broken like toothpicks u no one was home no one was hurt. Because the structure wasnt connected to utilities no real danger to names, for the man watching nearly three decades of memories a way kindred spirits. Im going to stay jersey strong and rebuild. Reporter that homeowner has been in touch with middle township police. Police in touch with the department of environmental protection. And the coast guard as they all figure out how to safely remove that
Under the protection of confidentiality is never scrutinized by the public. And lawyers are never accountable for it. So the sting actually brings some accountability to conduct that ought to be accountable. Kroft in its own report, Global Witness includes an opinion from two legal ethicists, including bill simon of columbia. It says that if attorneys marc koplik, john jankoff, and gerald ross had been responding to a real request, their conduct would not comply with the professional responsibilities of lawyers. It said the attorneys displayed a cynical and evasive attitude toward law. The ethicists also noted that the rules are vague, and we do not expect that all lawyers will agree with us. Simon put thena. B. A. President James Silkenat and his partner, hugh finnegan, in a different category, even though they provided advice on how to move questionable funds into the u. S. What makes silkenat different from the other lawyers . Simon silkenat was quite illegal conduct. And he even in
Jankoff i dont like emails. Kayser you dont like emails . Gabe thats how you catch people. Kroft the hidden camera tapes raise all sorts of ethical questions not just about the behavior of the lawyers, but about the methods used by Global Witness in making them. We showed the footage to bill simon, a law professor at columbia university, who is one of the countrys top legal ethicists. Bill simon i think it draws attention to the fact that lawyers may be playing an Important Role in Money Laundering that requires more scrutiny. Kroft have you ever seen anything like this before . Simon no. Kroft never . Simon never. Kroft whats your overall impression of it . Simon any lawyers going to be uncomfortable about the fact that this was a sting in which someone lied his way into a Lawyers Office and secretly recorded statements a lawyer was. Thought he was making to a client. Thats kind of unprecedented and its kind of inconsistent with the bars norms about confidentiality. So im a little une