Sounds like Corallo was doing a little two-stepping. Adamantly deny, then say , well, gee, he may have helped a colleague. Not sure what it means, but he better get on top of it.
It doesn’t sound like that at all. He adamantly denies that Thompson lobbied anyone on their behalf.
Sununu says that it never happened too. Is he supposed to be lying along with Fred to cover up this idiotic non-story about a lobbyist for hire lobbying someone? If he had done lobbying for them, he would have just said so. A few of the hand wringers such as yourself might have used it as a propaganda tool, (yeah, I know, he’s supposedly your number two and you do a good job of seeming just reasonable enough, but frankly, the whole charade smells like a steaming load of a different kind of number two...) but really nobody else would give a damn.
People need lawyers. Lawyers take on clients. That doesn’t mean they support what the client wants. It’s a paying job.
Now, at this point, after denying it, if it were proven true, it would be horrible. There’s no reason to think that would be the case though.