add Boehner to the list of bung-holes who will eventually be behind bars. In what sort of bizarro world does a sleazy jerk-off like this get $1 million in damages?
Judge: $1M in Legal Fees for Boehner
By MATTHEW DALY – 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner more than $1 million in legal fees in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.
Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered McDermott to pay Boehner $1.05 million in attorney's fees and costs, plus about $40,000 in interest. McDermott, a Washington Democrat, also had to pay more than $60,000 in fines and damages, as well as nearly $600,000 in fees to his own lawyers.
McDermott said Tuesday he would not appeal the judge's ruling.
"It's dead," he said of the 10-year dispute with Boehner, R-Ohio. "We're just cleaning up after the parade. We saved the First Amendment, and it costs a piece of change, but that's life in the big leagues."
The Supreme Court in December let stand a federal appeals court ruling that McDermott acted improperly in giving reporters access to an audio tape given to him by a Florida couple who recorded a 1996 telephone call involving then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and other GOP leaders. McDermott, at the time a senior member of the House ethics committee, leaked the tape to two newspapers, which published articles on the case in January 1997.
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