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.
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