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Who may that loser be?
http://www.leadingauthorities.com/17527/David_Gregory.htm
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Board of Directors of Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) today announced Beth Wilkinson has been appointed Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and Bill Senhauser has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer.
As Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Wilkinson will serve as principal legal counsel to the company's Board of Directors and senior executives, and will set Fannie Mae's legal agenda, address critical legal issues and have oversight and management responsibility for all legal strategies, services and resources. She will report to the chief executive officer and serve as corporate secretary to the Board of Directors. Wilkinson joins Fannie Mae from Latham & Watkins, LLP, where she is a partner and represented a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including General Electric, Ford Motor Company and the health care company HCA, regarding complex business disputes, investigations and litigation.
"Beth has the extraordinary legal expertise, corporate governance background, as well as the leadership we were seeking. She has a clear vision for how the legal department can support Fannie Mae's business going forward and she has a thorough understanding of the role and importance of regulatory oversight in the functioning of a company. Beth will be a great addition to our senior leadership team," said President and Chief Executive Officer Daniel H. Mudd.
Prior to her tenure at Latham & Watkins, LLP, Wilkinson was the special attorney to the U.S. Attorney General serving as a prosecutor in the U.S. v. McVeigh and Nichols cases. For that she received the U.S. Attorney General's highest commendation -- the Exceptional Service Award -- for a second time, making her the only two-time recipient in history. She also has served as the Principal Deputy in the Terrorism & Violent Crime Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division.
Before then Wilkinson was counsel to the Deputy Attorney General in U.S. Attorney General's office in Washington, D.C.; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; and Special Assistant, U.S. Attorney (U.S. v. Noriega) for the Southern District of Florida (Miami, FL); and Assistant to the General Counsel for Intelligence and Special Operations, Department of the Army, General Counsel's Office. Wilkinson received her J.D. from The University of Virginia and her bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University.
Marsha Kight Testimony, March 24, 1999 <- Re: Wilkinson's performance as OKC prosecutor
And more recently, http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182592/posts?page=244#244.
Fundrace Neighbor Search shows Beth Wilkinson giving $2,000 to Wes Clark and $1,500 to John Kerry.
She also has successfully represented Phillip Morris in tobacco-related lawsuits, see e.g., http://www.tobacco.org/news/133875.html and http://www.tobacco.org/news/135181.html.
Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was forced to conclude that 4,800 pounds of ANFO could have not caused the so-called crater in Oklahoma City. FEMA's report, published on August 30, 1996, inadvertently concluded that the bombers would have had to use approximately three times the amount reportedly used in Oklahoma City.[62]
Another interesting confirmation came from FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh, who, along with U.S. Attorney Beth Wilkerson, visited General Partin in June of 1995. Part of the team that prosecuted McVeigh and Nichols, Wilkerson interviewed Partin on the presumption that he would be called as a witness. "...and [Agent Defenbaugh] was going through the report that I did," said Partin, "and he put his finger on that picture I had in the report... the designated crater, and he said, 'Suppose I told you that is not the crater?'"
Partin believes Wilkerson and Defenbaugh (who Partin described as belligerent) interviewed him as part of a ruse to find out what he knew about the blast(s), so the government could carefully avoid those issues at trial. While they pretended to be interested in Partin's analysis, they never kept their word to follow up the interview.
"I think what they did," said Partin, "was they looked at my credentials and technical justification of all this stuff, and they felt found that what I had was based on some pretty sound footing.... I think that's why they framed the case the way they did." [63] ...
"We have no information showing anyone other than Mr. McVeigh and Mr. Nichols are the masterminds" - U.S. Attorney Beth Wilkinson ...
Yet at a hearing on April 9, federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson stated that the government "has no information showing anyone but Mr. Nichols and Mr. McVeigh were the masterminds of this bombing."[776] ...
Others, like juror Keith Brookshier, said"[I] know that Terry Nichols was into it up to his eyeballs and that's the only thing I had to decide.... We're not trying John Doe 2, or 3 or 4 or whatever." U.S. Attorney Beth Wilkinson naturally added her voice to the ensemble, stating that "sightings of John Doe 2 were about as common and about as credible as sightings of Elvis."[1376] ...
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62. (48) "The Oklahoma City Bombing: Improved building performance through multi-hazard mitigation," FEMA, quoted in Relevance magazine, April, 1997.
63. (49) General Benton K. Partin, interview with author.
776. (579) Nolan Clay and John Parker, "John Doe 2 Still Sought, Letter: Says Prosecutors Doubt Witnesses Mistaken," The Daily Oklahoman, date unknown.
1376. (995) Nolan Clay, "Some Jurors Convinced Others Involved -- Nichols Trial Renews Speculation Concerning John Doe 2," Daily Oklahoman, 1/11/98.