Lawyers Representing Bush In 2000 Election Case Signed Off On Wolfowitz’s Compensation Package

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/16/wolfowitz-olson-scalia/

Former head of the World Bank ethics committee, Ad Melkert, has stated that his panel was never consulted on, nor approved of, the hefty compensation package bank president Paul Wolfowitz arranged for his love interest, Shaha Riza.

But new documents released by a special committee of The World Bank Group show that a team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did sign off on the deal. That team included President Bush’s former Solicitor General Ted Olson and Eugene Scalia, son of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Law.com reports:

Documents released by the bank show that Wolfowitz asked Gibson to review the deal in the summer of 2005. A Gibson Dunn team, including Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia, concluded that the contract was “a reasonable resolution of the perceived underlying conflict of interest.”

Earlier this week, the Bank’s special committee investigating the scandal “concluded that the limited and after-the-fact review by Gibson ‘is squarely at odds with the high degree of … concern for the interests of’ the World Bank.”

Both Scalia and Olson are solid Bush loyalists, and it’s no surprise that they signed off on Wolfowitz’s arrangement. Some highlights of their career defending the Bush administration:

[Solly Mack]

1. lol

but let's just pretend it will all just go away in 09

[aquart]

2. Think how bad it must have been

If loyal, unquestioning, rubberstamping, didn't-say-boo-when-he-lost-his-wife-to-the-cause Ted Olson stood with Comey and not Gonzales. THINK about it.