Rowland Hires Top D.C. Criminal Defense Lawyer
Source: Hartford Courant
By JON LENDER and EDMUND H. MAHONY, jlender@courant.comThe Hartford Courant
7:37 p.m. EST, February 11, 2014
Former Gov. John G. Rowland has retained one of the nation's top white-collar criminal defense lawyers in response to a continuing federal grand jury investigation into his 2011 consulting arrangement with the husband of Lisa Wilson-Foley, an unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate.
Reid H. Weingarten, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C., has been representing Rowland in recent contacts with federal law enforcement officials, sources have told The Courant.
Investigators have been looking at the relationship between Wilson-Foley, her husband and Rowland — who resigned as governor in mid-2004 during a corruption scandal and later spent 10 months in federal prison.
The probe's focus is whether $30,000 in consulting payments that Wilson-Foley's husband made to Rowland were, in reality, compensation for the ex-governor's assistance to Wilson-Foley in her 2012 campaign in the 5th Congressional District, sources have told The Courant. It's a violation of federal law to hide campaign expenditures.
Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-rowland-probe-0212-20140211,0,6277544.story
This guy now has a drive-time "talk" show, and he spends more than half of it berating the "corruption" (made up by him) of our Democratic governor and other Democrats in the state. He's already a convicted felon, now this?
Maybe we can find a jail cell big enough for the egos of John Rowland and Chris Christie?
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