And Donna Brazile, who was campaign manager for Al Gore in 2000, she now runs her own political consulting firm here in Washington.

NPR: Political Corner: Gonzales

She now runs her own political consulting firm here in Washington.

NPR: Gore's Prospects for the 2008 Presidential Race

Not quite a decade later Mandell, 48, seems to be thriving on Wall Street, running a publicly traded firm called Sky Capital Holdings, which includes brokerages here and in the U.K. He is also chief executive of another publicly traded firm, Sky Capital Enterprises, which includes a British publisher, a medical device company and a firm that invests in homeland security businesses.

FORBES: Second Act

It's a dispute between the Canadian-based maker of BlackBerry, the firm called Research In Motion, and a very small licensing company here in Virginia called NTP.

NPR: Slate's Jurisprudence: BlackBerry Net to Go Dark?

It is only one of nine accounting firms in the U.S. that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires to be inspected annually by the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) because the firm audits over 100 companies that are traded on stock exchanges here in the United States (18 of them Chinese).

FORBES: Reverse Mergers -- Pushers May Be The Problem

Here, she talks about what the future holds for her firm in this rapidly changing industry and reveals the new project she considers to be her soul's work.

FORBES

Ever the caring hubby, he's looking out for his wife's bottom line, wondering aloud to his top staffer "if there is a play here, with these guys, with her" to work for a lobbying firm in Washington or New York at a better salary.

CNN: Commentary: What was Blagojevich thinking?

The US firm Hewlett Packard is based here, and Coca-Cola has decided to base its European headquarters in Bulgaria.

BBC: British entrepreneurs invest in Bulgaria

But here in Mohawk, even the victims' friends said their stance on gun rights remained firm.

WSJ: In Mohawk Shootings, Town Feels Anger at Gov. Andrew Cuomo

But now the firm is taking advantage of the turbulence in the legal industry in the last few years to finally create a presence here.

WSJ: Giving the City a Shot

Currently, the firm is hoping to release it into less restricted overseas markets by the year's end, but analysts here in America are questioning its ability to pass through all the red tape required for it to hit our shelves.

ENGADGET: Next Safety developing nicotine-delivery device to curb smoking