J.W. Verret is mentioned in a Forbes.com article about the adminstration's plan to cut executive compensation and change the corporate governance structure at firms receiving bail-out dollars.

"This is a nickel and dime approach to a billion-dollar problem," says J.W. Verret, a professor at Virginia's George Mason University Law School. "This new policy will attract executives who don't have a better alternative, and who don't mind running a business based on political influence," he argues.