As World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz fights to keep his job, which is in jeopardy for arranging a generous compensation package for a bank employee with whom he has been romantically linked, he has retained Robert Bennett, whose previous clients include former President Clinton. Bennett said he was retained Saturday, one day after the World Bank's board ordered a special panel on whether, among other things, Wolfowitz properly handled the promotion of Shaha Riza to a job at the State Department in 2005.
April 24, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has hired a prominent attorney as he fights to keep his job, in jeopardy for arranging a generous compensation package for a bank employee with whom he has been romantically linked.
“I want to be sure that he receives appropriate treatment and fair treatment,” Robert Bennett, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, said Monday.
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