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Article: No.002 The line on Patrick Fitzgerald.(TRIAL OF THE YEAR)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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In early January, U. S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is scheduled to begin his prosecution of I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to Vice-President Cheney, for perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the Valerie Plame leak case. It will be the most visible and highly charged criminal trial of a political figure since Watergate. Fitzgerald, the forty-five-year-old U. S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has been involved in a number of news-making prosecutions in Chicago, but he rarely gives interviews and remains an opaque public figure. But within federal law-enforcement circles, he is well-known--and his appointment to lead the case came ...