Last week, however, a federal appeals court in St. Louis reversed the trial court's decision . It held that the lawyer-client privilege does not protect conversations between government officials and government lawyers during the course of a federal prosecutor's investigation.
Federal courts do not think that lawyer-client privilege exists in some cases.
In 1977 and 1983, Congress passed a series of reforms that were supposed to make sure that Social Security remained solvent for at least 75 years.