Is Lewis Libby "not a wealthy man"?

Libby Establishes a Fund to Help Pay Legal Bills
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is establishing a fund to help pay for his legal defense in the C.I.A. leak case, and associates of Mr. Libby have begun soliciting money from his friends and Republican donors, lawyers and people who have been contacted about the fund said on Tuesday.

Ms. Comstock declined to comment. Other people who have been told of the fund said that their understanding was that names of the donors would not be made public, but that some decisions about how the fund would operate had yet to be made. With Mr. Libby having left government, there is no legal requirement for any public disclosure.

Mr. Libby has put together a high-priced legal team to defend himself against five felony counts of lying to investigators and misleading a grand jury, and lawyers unconnected with the matter have estimated that the bill could run well into the millions of dollars if he goes to trial.

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"We're certainly establishing a legal defense fund," Mr. Jeffress said, "and we'll do everything we can to make it successful, because he's not a wealthy man."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/politics/09libby.html?ei=5088&en=55611ffb378a1448&ex=1289192400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

I can't remember the details but I believe it's family money.

if Libby is rich.

not confirmed

related thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x169705#169722

They always take care of their friends and crush anyone who is disloyal.

Typical repuke. Never use your own money.

longer in gov't???

I don't put anything past these guys.

Those people shouldn't put the money into Libby's defense fund. They should put it into undoing the damage the lies caused.

but they aren't willing to use their own money for their defense when they were only serving our country, for heaven's sake. Don't they have hidden accounts set up for such needs? A Repub perk? I hope it's a big one, because it looks like they are going to keep a whole lotta lawyers busy.

n/t

But by "standards" I mean the standards of the common working soul who struggles to make ends meet in this * economy. I can't believe any of them will put a dollar of their own money into their defense, since they were working for "us" (or at least that would be their argument). I can't believe anyone would contribute to his legal account unless they are also corrupt and feel they may have to put out their own appeal for funds.

Why should he use up his personal wealth to defend himself, while protecting the rest of them? He might get bitter and disgruntled. The best way to keep him down on the farm, so to speak, is to keep $$$ coming in for him.

This "fund" is a legal way for the Republicans to funnel money to him to keep him happy.

TC

The administration does behave like one.

What's wrong with this picture!

These rat-fuckers have double books.

and he had only good things to say about Libby.

At some point he said that had Libby gone to private practice he could have earn a million bucks while in the W.H. - "only" $160,000.

And we were supposed to feel bad for him?

None of them felt bad for Bill Clinton whose legal bills mounted to more than a million - by the time they were done. And this was a guy who was always in government service, they did not even own their own home, and being a Governor of Arkansas certainly was not a high paying job.

So I am really glad when I hear that the Clintons are laughing all the way to the bank, with their books and his lectures.

BTW - Bill Clinton was at the U of Minnesota the other day and declined payment for his appearance.

His father was an astonishingly successful investment banker and "Scooter" got lots of that money. He went to Andover, Yale, and got his law degree from Columbia.

He represented Mark Rich--the scary Clinton pardonee!--and won his pardon in addition to being Rich's business lawyer for about 15 years.

"Not wealthy"? I would do a spit take, but only if it landed on Scooter himself.