Trivia Time: Who was Bush's lawyer against the SEC investigation?

[kerryin2004]

and who is that lawyer representing now, and against whom??

[Guaranteed]

1. Uhh...just a guess...Jim Baker?

Who's now currently representing Saudi Arabia against the 9/11 families.

[blondeatlast]

2. My guess, too. nt

[kerryin2004]

6. Baker was SEC'Y of State

The SEC nevertheless cleared Bush on Aug. 21, 1991. One day later Bush's lawyer - Robert Jordan, now the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia - left for personal reasons in 2003.. Jordan joined his Baker & Botts colleague James Baker

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. James Doty, but I don't know who he's representing now

[Stephanie]

4. Vinson & Ellis?

Enron lawyers?

[HootieMcBoob]

5. Harvey Pitt?

and is he now representing Enron againt its employees?
:shrug:

[punpirate]

7. Actually George W. Bush's lawyer during the SEC investigation was...

... Robert Jordan:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm

Jordan is now ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Other legal beagles involved in the Harken/SEC investigation were, according to The Nation:

"Bruce Hiler, the associate director of the SEC's enforcement division, who wrote a letter to Bush's attorney saying the investigation was being terminated, now represents former Enron president Jeff Skilling in matters before the government. Richard Breeden, the SEC chairman at the time, was deputy counsel to Bush's father when he was Vice President and was appointed SEC chairman when H.W. Bush became President. James Doty, the SEC's general counsel at the time, helped W. Bush negotiate the contract to buy the Texas Rangers. Bush used the proceeds of his sale of Harken stock in 1990 to pay off a loan he took out for a minority stake in the baseball team. Doty has said that he recused himself from the SEC's two-year probe into Bush's sale of Harken stock."

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20020722&s=leopold20020718

Cheers.

[kerryin2004]

8. but he left in 2003

and from accounts I have read he is now helping Baker in defending the saudi govt..

[punpirate]

9. Yeah, I missed that...

... he resigned in 2003. I'm still looking for something that says what he's doing at this moment.

On edit, Jordan was a member of James Baker's firm, Baker & Botts, before being named ambassador to SA, so I presume he returned to that firm after resigning, and is now at least tangentially involved in defending the Saudis in the 9/11 suit against them.

Cheers.