Tom Green (attorney)

Thomas C. Green (born 1941/2)[1] is an American defense attorney. He has represented American politicians against accusations in highly publicized cases. Clients have included Robert Mardian in the Watergate scandal, several government officials in the Whitewater scandal, Richard V. Secord in the Iran-Contra scandal, and former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert against allegations of personal misconduct.[2][3]

Early life and career

In Green's first major case in 1974, he began by assisting attorney David Bress in the defense of alleged Watergate conspirator Robert Mardian. Shortly after the trial began, Bress fell seriously ill and Green replaced him as the main defense attorney.[1]

Green has been a longtime manager of white-collar criminal defense practice at the law firm Sidley Austin, in Washington D.C.[2]

In 2015, Green served as former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's defense attorney.[3][4][5]

It has been reported as of January 2018 that Green represents political consultant Rick Gates in the Mueller probe.[6]

gollark: Quite a lot.
gollark: > The Planck time is the unique combination of the gravitational constant G, the special-relativistic constant c, and the quantum constant ħ, to produce a constant with dimension of time. Because the Planck time comes from dimensional analysis, which ignores constant factors, there is no reason to believe that exactly one unit of Planck time has any special physical significance. Rather, the Planck time represents a rough time scale at which quantum gravitational effects are likely to become important. This essentially means that while smaller units of time can exist, they are so small their effect on our existence is negligible. The nature of those effects, and the exact time scale at which they would occur, would need to be derived from an actual theory of quantum gravity.
gollark: Oh, no, never mind, that's not it.
gollark: ... you mean the Planck time or something?
gollark: Actually, picolightyears sounds better as light picoyears.

References
  1. Timothy Crouse. Gambits of Desperation: The White House Five Defense Lawyers. Rolling Stone, 16 Jan 1975
  2. Thomas C. Green, Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP.
  3. Jake Miller (June 8, 2015). "Who has Dennis Hastert hired to defend him?". CBS News. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  4. Sara Burnett, Lawyer: Leaks in Hastert case 'unconscionable', Associated Press (June 18, 2015).
  5. Steve Schmadeke, Hastert lawyer plans to seek to dismiss indictments, rails against "leaks from the government", Chicago Tribune (July 14, 2015).
  6. Katelyn Polantz. Gates may be negotiating with Mueller's team. CNN.
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