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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: tonto who wrote (46113)10/30/2005 1:01:42 AM
From: wonk  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
You are both right and both wrong.

…Mr. Libby, a protégé of Leonard Garment, President Richard M. Nixon's lawyer, is no stranger to legal and diplomatic challenges. While in private practice between stints in government, he represented clients including Fiat, NBC and United Parcel Service. When he left private practice, he was billing $535 an hour.

But his most celebrated client was Marc Rich, the billionaire fugitive commodities trader and tax evader to whom President Bill Clinton later granted a pardon. Mr. Libby represented Mr. Rich on and off for 15 years, earning $2 million in fees, but he was not involved in the pardon.

nytimes.com

While Libby was not Rich's attorney of record at the time the pardon was granted, the reasons stated for the pardon where the exact arguments that Libby had been making for a pardon when he was under retainer.
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