Spears would be a sort of capital tool, making it possible for tribesmen both to kill more animals per day (thus increasing the tribe's daily productivity) and to hunt bigger animals, whose size would otherwise make them inaccessible (thus putting the tribe in the position to attain a qualitatively superior output that would be otherwise unattainable). But spears do not come free. They are not bestowed upon tribesmen by nature like natural resources (i. e., land) and labor are. In order to manufacture spears, our tribesmen will need—besides the knowledge about how to manufacture a spear—first, the necessary time to blend labor with natural sources; second, saving that sustains them while they are busy manufacturing spears and unable to devote their time to the usual hunting. As Mises writes, People eager to embark upon processes with a longer period of production must first accumulate, by means of saving, that quantity of consumers' goods which is needed to satisfy, during the waiting time, all those wants the satisfaction of which they consider more urgent than the increment in well-being expected from the more time-consuming process.
One of those people was Sally Yates, for which she was fired. Before that, Weissman sent her an email congratulating her for her stand and expressing his pride in her actions. During the Mueller probe, Weissman ordered a pre-dawn raid on the home of Paul Manafort in Virginia that lasted for hours. When Manafort went to prison on charges having absolutely nothing to do with Russian election interference, he was placed in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Weissman recommended a prison term of 19-24 years; Manafort got 47 months, less than 4 years. Despite these drawbacks, even his actions against organized crime figures in the 1990s was called into question. In 1997, the judge in one case officially reprimanded Weissman for holding back exculpatory evidence against one defendant. One lawyer officially requested that he be removed from a case and he was reported to the DOJ's Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee for misconduct. One defendant named Scarpa was involved in a personal relationship with his FBI handler, Lindley DeVecchio.
488, bold added) Once this process is completed and the spears are manufactured, the tribesmen find out that they are now closer to the attainment of more time-consuming goals—such as more units of game per day and/or a kind of game otherwise unattainable, say, because of its size—than they were before. In Mises's own words, Capital goods are intermediary stations on the way leading from the very beginning of production to its final goal, the turning out of consumers' goods. He who produces with the aid of capital goods enjoys one great advantage over the man who starts without capital goods; he is nearer in time to the ultimate goal of his endeavors. 490, bold added) Thanks to accumulated capital, the tribe can now collect the same prey within a shorter timespan—i. e., it is now more productive. Tasks which would have previously required more working hours and/or the cooperation of other tribesmen are now more manageable. As Mises explains, A lengthening of the period of production [i. e., capital accumulation] can increase the quantity of output per unit of input or produce goods which cannot be produced at all within a shorter period of production.
DeVecchio was also a witness in a case against Anthony Persico. Weissman had DeVecchio testify as a witness against Michael Sessa, who was a captain in the Colombo crime family at the time, although he knew that DeVecchio was under investigation by the FBI for their relationship with Scarpa. Knowing this, Weissman failed to disclose the relationship or the investigation to the court and instead portrayed DeVecchio as a solid witness. With the Arthur Andersen case, despite pleas from the company not to indict the entire firm (they were prosecuted when a few people destroyed documents), Weissman ignored their pleas and reportedly said he did not care if the entire firm folded (it did). In addition, from his days as a federal prosecutor in New York, the territory covered Brooklyn. The US attorney at that time was Loretta Lynch. Subsequent reports indicated that Weissman was part of a small group that included Lynch who would hang together socially. Another prosecutor was Aaron Zebley. He spent seven years at the FBI as a special agent in the Counterterrorism Division and served as Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI.
In 2005, partly due to his conduct, the convictions were overturned 9-0 by the US Supreme Court. This was small vindication for the already ruined reputations of those he prosecuted, and the 85, 000 unemployed people. As part of the Enron investigation, he managed to criminalize transactions between the energy company and Merrill Lynch. Pending their appeals, he managed for the court to deny bail to executives who were no flight risk. Later analysis showed that the charges against both Arthur Andersen and Merrill Lynch were "concocted" and "unprecedented. " In the Merrill Lynch case, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions. After a stint in private practice, Weissman became Mueller's general counsel, then moved over to head the criminal fraud division of the DOJ when Comey replaced Mueller at the FBI. On election night 2016, Weissman attended the Hillary Clinton victory party that was not to be. Early in the Trump administration when Trump's DOJ issued a travel ban, several people within the DOJ refused to enforce it.
His credentials, on paper, are admittedly impressive. There is no secret that he has a no-holds-barred reputation as a prosecutor. It was the Enron case that first showed some disturbing behaviors by a prosecutor. According to unsealed documents in that case, Weissman engaged in a pattern of intimidating witnesses and leveraging attorney-client privilege against another witness. Although there were complaints, the judge in the Enron case refused to accept the affidavits since many of those making the complaints were "off the record" since they feared retaliation. There was an attempt to push one attorney- Dan Codgell- off the case. Weissman empaneled multiple grand juries over the course of the three year investigation that resulted in no new cases or a refreshing of a previous case, but merely to hold the possibility of prosecution as a cudgel to hold over the head of approximately 90 other people. He also led an investigation into the accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, which led to the collapse of that firm and the unemployment of its 85, 000 worldwide employees.