Ekonomou to replace Dowd on Spanky's legal team. Never heard of him.

[Elwood P Dowd]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawyer/exclusive-spurned-by-top-lawyers-trumps-defense-elevates-washington-outsider-idUSKBN1H409J

Andrew Ekonomou, 69, is one of a handful of lawyers assisting Jay Sekulow, the main attorney representing Trump in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Sekulow told Reuters on Tuesday that after the departure of Washington attorney John Dowd from Trump’s personal legal team last week, Ekonomou will assume a more prominent role.

The elevation comes at a crucial time in the Mueller probe, as Trump’s team is negotiating the terms under which the president himself may be interviewed. Sekulow is now the last man standing of a trio of personal lawyers hired last spring to assist Trump on the probe. Combative New York lawyer Marc Kasowitz exited the team last summer.

Sekulow said Ekonomou, who works under contract as an assistant district attorney in Brunswick, Georgia, was a “brilliant strategist” who has handled complex investigations for decades. Ekonomou assisted Sekulow in a famous case involving the religious group Jews for Jesus before the Supreme Court in the 1980s.

[marybourg]

1. Assistant District Attorney

in Brunswick, Georgia?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Here's his CV

http://policycentreatoxford.org/board-members/Andrew-Ekonomou-CV.pdf

[SunSeeker]

7. Sounds like he's an expert on monasteries. That should come in handy. LOL

[SunSeeker]

3. He's Sekulow's buddy. That's all you need to know.

[Phoenix61]

4. There are a whopping 16,000 people living there nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Been there a few times, and it's actually closer to 50,000 with Jeykll Island, St Simons Island,

Sea Island, and others in that metro area. The actual city limits of Brunswick is only 16K though.

[spanone]

5. Exclusive: Spurned by top lawyers, Trump's defense elevates Washington outsider

(Reuters) - A little-known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team, as many top-tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.

Andrew Ekonomou, 69, is one of a handful of lawyers assisting Jay Sekulow, the main attorney representing Trump in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Sekulow told Reuters on Tuesday that after the departure of Washington attorney John Dowd from Trump’s personal legal team last week, Ekonomou will assume a more prominent role.

Ekonomou said he has been working with Sekulow on the Mueller probe since June.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawyer/exclusive-spurned-by-top-lawyers-trumps-defense-elevates-washington-outsider-idUSKBN1H409J

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. He isn't really new to the Trump legal team, such as it is.

He's been working with Sekulow already; it just sounds like they're going to give him more work to do because they can't get anyone else. He is a lecturer in Byzantine history and literature at Emory University, so there's that. Trump hires only the best people.

[lunasun]

8. Sounds perfect

In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Ekonomou spent several years in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Atlanta, where he was chief of the office’s criminal division and briefly served as acting U.S. attorney in 1982.

Since the Jews for Jesus case in the ‘80s with Sekulow, Ekonomou has done some work for the American Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit which advocates for religious and constitutional freedoms and is known for supporting Christian causes. Sekulow is the center’s chief counsel.

Following what he called a “mid-life crisis,” Ekonomou said he went back to school and got his doctorate in medieval history at Emory University in 2000. Ekonomou said he is the author of a book on Byzantine Rome and the Greek popes.

[yardwork]

16. Sounds like Pence knows him.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. I'm guessing neither Perry Mason nor Matlock gave returned calls. nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. He found out Matlock was played by an Obama supporting Democrat, so that one is out. (nm)

[Princess Turandot]

12. And in March 2014, he testified as an expert in a bankruptcy litigation, about the reasonableness..

... of a creditor's requested legal expense reimbursement:

At the hearing, Ozarks presented the expert testimony of Andrew J. Ekonomou, an attorney with considerable bankruptcy litigation expertise, in support of the reasonableness of its fee application. Mr. Ekonomou is an attorney licensed to practice law in Georgia. He received his law degree from Emory Law School in 1974. His principal practice is state and federal insolvency litigation. He has extensive experience as special litigation counsel to bankruptcy trustees in the Middle and Northern Districts of Georgia. After cross-examination by the Debtor's counsel, I accepted Mr. Ekonomou as an expert in the area of legal fees involving bankruptcy litigation.

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART BANK OF THE OZARKS' APPLICATION FOR EXPENSES:
http://www.gas.uscourts.gov/usbc/publishedopinions/jsd/12-20564-JSD-183-Main%20Document.pdf (page 11)

The Supreme Court case was the one involving leafleting at the LA airport, which had banned all "First Amendment activities" on its premises in 1983. The 'Jews for Jesus' sued the airport after one of their members was stopped from leafleting by airport personnel in 1984. The airport lost the case at each level. SCOTUS ruled 9-0 against the airport.

[MrScorpio]

13. He only hires the bestest.

[Achilleaze]

14. Is this the lawyer Pooty Poot recommended?

[Gothmog]

15. No one has heard of this lawyer

He is not a top tier defense lawyer