Monica Goodling's Lawyer at Akin Gump, also Boss of DC Madam Escort?

[L. Coyote]

Monica Goodling's Lawyer at Akin Gump, also Boss of DC Madam Escort?

This has to be too strange to be true, right? Is this source reliable? It's surprising, to be sure. Or, DC is a small town!

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OMG: The Akin Gump Escort Worked For... Monica Goodling's Lawyer!!!
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/05/akin_gump_on_the_dc_...

We have confirmed, with knowledgeable sources, what was previously rumored in reader comments.
The Akin Gump Escort worked for John M. Dowd, the high-powered head of the firm's criminal litigation group.

...We emailed Mr. Dowd to confirm that the (alleged) Akin Gump Assistant Madam worked as his secretary.
We didn't receive a response from him. But a few hours later, we were contacted by a firm spokesperson:

Per your query, I write to advise that this is an internal personnel matter, and as such we will not provide comment.

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Law Blog Question of the Day: Who pays Goodling’s legal bills? Akin Gump’s Dowd is one of D.C. top white-collar defense lawyers whose rate, we’d venture to guess, is too rich for young Monica’s blood. Assuming he has some flexibility, does he cut his fees? Does he take the case pro bono for the opportunity to work on a fascinating case with lots of free publicity? Through an Akin Gump spokeswoman, Dowd declined to comment. Beltway lawyers: How does this work?
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/category/dismissed-us-attorney... /
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Spinoff from: DEAL OR NO DEAL? Abramoff's and Rove's ex-aide has "useful information" about Abramoff, White House
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x995236

[Erika]

1. LMAO n/t

[KharmaTrain]

2. What? No Cease & Desist Letter???

Damn us dirty fuckin' hippies on the Internets...we can sure google lots of interesting things about people.

[L. Coyote]

3. So many easy targets, way too much free time!

Perhaps Monica should thank the Indians in Arizona.
This is just unbelievable, $$millions$$ per year?
This is also so reminiscent of Abramoff!

Akin, Gump et al
2003 - Total Lobbying Income: $25,790,000
2003 - Gila River Indian Community $2,040,000
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2004 = $27,960,000
Gila River Indian Community $2,180,000

2005 = $28,460,000
Gila River Indian Community $1,260,000

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/firmsum.asp?txtname=Akin%2C+Gump+et+al&year=2003

[KharmaTrain]

4. You're Just Scratching The Surface

Ya figure Abramoff has been singing for over a year now and then there's the DeLay slush funds and the "Scooter Defense" fund. We need someone here with a knowledge of RICO laws.

Cheers...

[L. Coyote]

5. Not enough scratching at DoJ, OR Too much scratch?

The Abramoff prosecution has been "centralized" to DoJ, rather than prosecuted by a USA. It is under the direct control of Gonzales, McNulty, et. al. Abramoff successfully obstructed justice within the DoJ in the past. One has to wonder, Should the prosecution be entrusted to the regime that could be a target of the investigation?

Can Justice Be Trusted? by Ari Berman
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060220/berman/2

Abramoff had persuaded Justice to kill a risk-assessment report on Guam and the CNMI, which Black had ordered. The report might have jeopardized the influx of cheap labor to CNMI, where Abramoff had $1.6 million in lobbying contracts. In an e-mail dated October 1, 2001, Abramoff told CNMI officials he learned of the results of the security review from Ashcroft's chief of staff, David Ayres, whom he hosted at a Washington Redskins game. Abramoff mentioned an upcoming meeting with Ashcroft and another meeting, at a pickup basketball game, between the Attorney General and an Ashcroft aide who'd become an Abramoff staffer. "We'll hope that higher ups will take some time to squash this on their own," Abramoff wrote. Sure enough, the report never came out and Justice demoted its author, regional security specialist Robert Meissner. Did Abramoff use the same Justice channels to quash Black's inquiry?

Despite Justice's refusal to help him, Black convened a grand jury, which subpoenaed the Abramoff contract with the Superior Court on November 18, 2002. The next day the Bush Administration announced that Black would be replaced as US Attorney and demoted him to Assistant US Attorney, after twelve years on the job. .....................

[L. Coyote]

6. JOHN M. DOWD, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Who can fill in the names of the past clients? Sen. John McCain? Gov. Evan Meecham? Col. ??

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JOHN M. DOWD, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Washington, D.C.
Practice Areas: Litigation
White Collar Criminal Defense
Corporate Governance
http://www.akingump.com/attorney.cfm?attorney_id=58

John M. Dowd heads the firm's criminal litigation group. Mr. Dowd has prosecuted and defended significant criminal matters at trial and in parallel proceedings before Congress and regulatory agencies for more than 30 years. His practice focuses on the trial of complex civil and criminal cases.

Mr. Dowd is noted for his representation of a U.S. district judge, a former U.S. attorney and two U.S. senators. In addition, he represented a U.S. governor in a lengthy, high-profile criminal trial involving 23 counts charging false statements, wire fraud and attempted extortion.

Mr. Dowd has represented a U.S. senator before the Department of Justice and the Senate Ethics Committee; a U.S. Army colonel in the Iran Contra Hearings; a U.S. senator before the Senate Ethics Committee; and a U.S. governor in litigation with the Resolution Trust Corporation and in a fact-finding hearing before the House Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, which inquired into the failure of the savings and loan industry. .....

[blm]

7. Heh - I've written many a post here pointing to the rampant use of escort services

by the Republicans for DECADES. The Enron guys used to hire expensive callgirls from LA and fly them to Houston where many a Republican big name would party throughout the 80s and early 90s, including the dictatortot himself.