Fred Fielding
Fielding is another one who has been around the centers of power for a while on the Republican side. In the Nixon administration he was a deputy counsel working under John Dean. In the Watergate scandal he helped his boss (Dean) handle Howard Hunt’s safe full of documents. They wore rubber gloves so as not to leave fingerprints. Fielding was not one of the twenty or so Nixon associates (including John Dean) that went to jail over their involvement.
Later Fielding served as White House Counsel to President Reagan. More recently he was at least partly responsible for getting George W. Bush’s political mentor Karl Rove in hot water over failure to divest his stock in Intel Corporation valued at over $100,000.
Fielding advised Rove, who was planning to divest all of his stock, to hold onto it until a “government certificate of divestiture” could be obtained. The certificate would have allowed deferral of capital gains taxes on stock sold.
Fielding is another one who has been around the centers of power for a while on the Republican side. In the Nixon administration he was a deputy counsel working under John Dean. In the Watergate scandal he helped his boss (Dean) handle Howard Hunt’s safe full of documents. They wore rubber gloves so as not to leave fingerprints. Fielding was not one of the twenty or so Nixon associates (including John Dean) that went to jail over their involvement.
Later Fielding served as White House Counsel to President Reagan. More recently he was at least partly responsible for getting George W. Bush’s political mentor Karl Rove in hot water over failure to divest his stock in Intel Corporation valued at over $100,000.
Fielding advised Rove, who was planning to divest all of his stock, to hold onto it until a “government certificate of divestiture” could be obtained. The certificate would have allowed deferral of capital gains taxes on stock sold.