Congressman Jerry Lewis has legal tab of $803,000+to firm a USAttorney just hired onto (Yang)

[caligirl]

In hiring Gibson Dunn, Lewis has taken a different route than some lawmakers caught up in corruption probes by assembling such high-powered lawyers from one massive firm. DeLay and Ney, for example, hired smaller firms and had usually just one lead attorney focusing intensely on the case, while also not hiring an additional legal PR adviser such as Comstock.

Ney spent almost $433,000 from his campaign committee on legal bills from the firm Vinson & Elkins for almost two years worth of legal work before he pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy of accepting gifts for official favors earlier this month.

In four months, Lewis has nearly doubled Ney’s legal tab, with more than $803,000 to Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and the rest to Blank Rome.

http://www.beyonddelay.org/node/120
(Yang)

[rumpel]

1. So LA and San Diego were working together

what an ethically corrupt move by Yang..

[robinlynne]

2. no shit. I'll bet it is not illegal either. She can just pretend to not be on the case.

[caligirl]

5. troubling though it is.

[robinlynne]

3. don't foget the 1.5 million paid to Yang, the former US attorney who was investigating him.

[izzie]

4. Do you mean Lewis has figured out how to get away with it?

I swear he leaves slime on my TV screen after they show him. Lam going has to be mixed up in this guys problems..