Roger Clemens hires additional lawyer--NY Times

"Roger Clemens has hired a powerhouse Washington lawyer, Lanny A. Breuer, who represented former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings and has also represented numerous corporations that were the subject of Congressional investigations.

• Clemens’s Houston lawyer, said late Thursday that he had hired Breuer as “local counsel” in Washington because of his expertise.....

Asked to comment on Clemens’s situation, Breuer said, again by e-mail: “I’m honored to be joining Rusty Hardin in representing one of the greatest pitchers and athletes in history.”"....

• From NY Times article by Duff Wilson, "Roger Clemens Hires Top Washington Lawyer," 1/17/08

(P.S. If Selig chose a Washington DC insider to get himself off the hook, why shouldn't Clemens?) sm

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