Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgeraldis a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois. He joined, as partner, the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as of October 29, 2012...
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When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.
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A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.
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A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has handwritten notes indicating that Libby referred to 'Joe Wilson' and 'Valerie Wilson' by those names in conversation with the briefer on June 14, 2003.
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The need to get to the bottom of what happened -- and whether national security was compromised by inadvertence, by recklessness, by maliciousness -- is extremely important, ... Anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.
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I'll be blunt. That talking point won't fly.
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they could not have picked a worse person.
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We have everything you can find at a Strip casino but we have $5 tables. That's who we are -- that's our brand. It's affordable luxury.
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was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards.
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There's no allegation in the indictment in Chicago that anyone adopted children. The indictment doesn't speak to that, and I'll just look to my left to make sure of that. There's no such allegation about someone being adopted.
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It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.
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Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders' money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.
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As a prosecutor, you have two roles: Show judgment as to what to go after and how to go after it. But also, once you do that, to be zealous. And if you're not zealous, you shouldn't have the job. Now sometimes 'zealous' becomes a code word for overzealous and I don't want to be overzealous. I hope I'm not,
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determine the facts and then outline those facts for the American people.
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You need to understand the pain, the horror, the agony that the bombing put so many families through.