Editor: The below article reads like a script for a movie that is likely to be made. Through over use, we have devalued the word ‘hero.’ Here is a genuine example.
NEW YORK TIME: The architect of a recent legal crackdown on Wall Street’s dubious mortgage practices was not the attorney general, a United States attorney or a rising star in the Justice Department. Instead, it was Leon W. Weidman, an unassuming 69-year-old career prosecutor, toiling away in anonymity 3,000 miles from Washington…
Born in Chicago, Mr. Weidman received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He then moved to Pittsburgh, where he worked as a project engineer for Westinghouse’s nuclear division and earned his law degree from Duquesne University.
In an era when lawyers routinely shuttle between the Justice Department and lucrative law firm partnerships, Mr. Weidman is something of a relic. Earning a government salary of $155,000 a year, he says he has no plans to spin his recent success into a seven-figure salary… (more)
