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The Congressional Confirmation Hearings for Eric Holder as Attorney General are going on right now. Most of the retired players have expressed their negative views about this mouthpiece and lobbyist for the NFL. Their fears of Holder running interference with ongoing Congressional investigations into the NFL’s mistreatment of its retired players need to be brought to the forefront to ensure that Holder will be forced to recuse himself from anything to do with the NFL. Better yet – after looking at some of the press coverage on the things he’s been involved with over the years, perhaps he shouldn’t be confirmed.

No doubt, Holder is one of the best lawyers money can buy… But surely there are better, more ethical attorneys (is that an oxymoron?) for the job?

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The letters to:
1) Congresswoman Linda Sanchez
2) Congresswoman Maxine Waters
3) Congressman John Conyers
4) Insurance Commissioner of Connecticut

have been now delivered. The only one left that has not been delivered is to: Mr. Richard Blumenthal (Attorney General of Connecticut). So out of the 18 letters sent, 17 have been delivered and we are only waiting on just one more.

And we just received this letter from the Insurance Commissioner of Florida (click on the latter to enlarge for reading).

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A week-and-a-half after sending out 13 letters to AON Corp. CEO Gregory Case and a long list of CC:’s, the US Postal Service has confirmed that the letters have all been delivered. (Click HERE to read the original letter.)

It was also pointed out to us that AON had been busted in Connecticut during that bid-rigging fiasco in 2005 and we didn’t want Connecticut to feel left out. So late last week, we sent out copies of the letter to the Connecticut Attorney General and their Insurance Commissioner. Three additional copies of the letter to AON were sent to Congressman John Conyers and Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Linda Sanchez (you may remember them from their leadership in the congressional NFL hearings).

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Never one to pull any punches, Cleveland Browns’ all-time great, Bernie Parrish, calls it like it is in this e-mail I received just last week:

The Pellman-Aon Corporation (Bears owner Patrick Ryan’s company our retirement plan actuary) Alliance meets again today. Elliot Pellman who falsified his medical resume and got caught by the NY Times saying he had a degree from SUNY Stony Brook that made him qualified as an expert on brain injuries when he did not. Dr. Pellman is a rheumatologist with a degree from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico not from SUNY Stony Brook appointed by Paul Tagliabue to be the NFL’s concussion expert. Elliot Pellman heading up another NFL PR farce is a cruel joke. He knows too much for the owner’s or their current puppet in the Commissioner’s office to fire him so they created a joint replacement scam to fit his degree, if in fact he really has one. Though almost any full service hospital in America have doctors who can replace joints. This new Goodell sham limits disabled players to 14 hospitals around the country who give the Pellman-Aon Alliance Program a special deal after you, the disabled retired player put up the first $5,000 for your surgery.

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