Writ Voiding 'Squawk Box' Guilty Plea Forced Feds' Hand
By Pete Brush ( May 22, 2015, 8:18 PM EDT) -- A Manhattan federal judge's use of a rare writ to erase former Merrill Lynch assistant Irene Santiago's guilty plea for lying in the "squawk box" securities fraud case may have been a valid exercise in sympathy, but its value as a possible precedent for use by less sympathetic convicts forced the government to have it knocked out on appeal....
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