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Posted on 04/01/2008 12:55:56 PM PDT by SmithL
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 ruled last month 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Unfortunately McDermott won’t actually pay a penny out of his own pocket. He will hold a “legal defense fund” fundraiser or some such thing and other will pay it for him.
WA Ping......Poor Jimmie......
Ha Ha!! McDirtBag
put some mud on it if it stings too much, Jim.. ya low life scumbag
Snicker.
the fine seems a pittance compared to the lawyers fees. wow.. he should be and should have been booted from Congre$$ long ago, that he hasn’t is no surprise considering the depths of the bowels this whole culture of corruption runs..
With Saddam Hussein dead, where is Bagdhad Jim going to come up with this kind of money?
How does losing "save the first amendment"?
I’m glad McDermott’s skullduggery is now officially on record.
“We saved the First Amendment”
Why do these asshats democraps always pretend that they are standing up for some higher moral principle when they get busted for doing something illegal, immoral, or both? Oh, that’s right, their moronic libdim voting base buys into it. Nevermind...
Wonder if that family that TAPED the phone call are Hillary SUPER DELEGATES!!
Boehner said it, not McDermott.
That's Seattle for you!
OOPS soory...I was WRONG!!~
Don’t expect this to make the news. If papers like the Cincinnati Enquirer or Cleveland Plain Dealer make any mention of the settlement at all it will be buried on page five.
Hehehehehehehehe.
If the judgement was against McDermott, then he’s liable for the amount. If someone else should pay the judgement, wouldn’t McDermott be responsible for paying income tax and Social Security and Medicare and State taxes on the $1 + million in new income he realized and used to pay the judgement?
No, McDermott said it. Reread the article.
I should have followed my own advice and finished reading the posts. My appologies to you for the prior post.
Mc Dermot should be drug around the mall till pink goo. He is an American enemy.
Said by a true DIPLOMAT!
Let me get this straight - George Bush authorizes tapping of foreign phone calls from known terrorists and McDermott and his ilk decry this incredible invasion of the rights of Americans.....but he receives and broadcasts a completely illegal recording of a private phone conversation with two prominent Americans - and he thinks he’s scored a big one for the First Amendment?
The cognitive dissonance of these clowns is unparalleled.
If Scooter Libby has to go to jail, why isn’t scumbag McVermin going to jail?
A tax attorney will have to answer that. I have seen several politicians and private citizens utilize fundraisers to pay attorney bills and judgements against them.
I have appeared in front of Judge Hogan a few times over the years, as has my wife. He definitely calls them as he sees them, and has a really low BS tolerance level. That combination can be very bad news for any person or entity that he determines was the miscreant in a given situation.
Soros?
“We’re just cleaning up after the parade.”
If you had the brains of a jackass you wouldn’t have crapped in your own parade. But I’n sure you have enough left over campaign funds that you won’t be out a cent on the judgement.
McDirtbag makes me ashamed to be from Washington.
No prob...
“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.”
Therein lies the trouble - $1.75 million is “a piece of change”. Representative government, ha! They have no clue of what their constituency is.
Does anybody have any doubt this lying creep will be re-elected?
“In 1998, Congressman Jim McDermott obtained and distributed to the media an illegally-obtained tape of a private conversation of Representative John Boehner . “
“House Democrats have stood with McDermott in his attempts to prod the courts to authorize warrantless wiretaps by private citizens against other law-abiding private citizens, while they continue to refuse to authorize government wiretaps of terrorist communications.”
McDermott is a huge embarrassment, not just to WA state but to the House. He shows just how far out the moonbats in Seattle are by being elected by them.
According to the article, McDermott has $400K in his "legal defense fund" and some $600K in his campaign fund.
Since McDermott is running unopposed in a safe district, he's home free. Of course, his contributors have been screwed, but he's home free.
Come on. Do you actually expect me to read the article before posting?
Of course, since it's from the MSM, the next question is "Is there any truth in it?"
We saved the First Amendment, and it costs a piece of change, but that’s life in the big leagues.”
My head is spinning, Jim!
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