In Re: Christine DeLay

There were a flurry of documents filed with both the DC Court and the Houston Court dealing with my favorite civil suit, Teltschik vs. Williams & Jensen, PLLC, et. al. I'm way behind in commenting on them, but I'll do my best.

Today, we review a Motion for Protective Order filed by a new attorney for Christine DeLay, wife of former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land).

Christine DeLay's new lawyer, Washington, DC-based Charles McIntyre of McGuireWoods, wants Judge Henry Kennedy of the DC District Court to grant a protective order in the event that Mrs. DeLay's Motion to Quash fails and Mrs. DeLay must submit to a deposition. (The deposition was scheduled for yesterday, January 2, 2009, but I cannot find anything in court documents indicating whether or not the deposition actually occurred.) This is what Mrs. DeLay wants the protective order to do:

Christine DeLay respectfully requests that this Court grant the Motion for a Protective Order to preclude Plaintiff Corwin Teltschik from taking her video deposition. In the alternative, Christine DeLay respectfully requests that this Court: (1) Limit Plaintiff's questioning to only those matters directly concerning the Conciliation Agreement or the FEC action at issue; (2) restrict the use of her testimony to only this matter; and (3) prohibit the dissemination of her testimony, by any means, to any person or entity other than this Court and the parties to this action, and only for purposes related to this litigation. In addition, Christine DeLay respectfully requests that this Court order Plaintiff, or his attorney, to pay her attorney's fees and any other reasonable relief.

Mrs. DeLay wants to limit which questions she will face in the depo. Based on Mr. Teltschik's response to Mrs. DeLay's Motion to Quash, we concluded that Mr. Teltschik wants to ask questions regarding general management at ARMPAC. Furthermore, I suspect that Mr. Teltschik wants to ask Mrs. DeLay about her role in hiring Don McGahn. Expect this limitation request to fail.

Regarding the requests to prevent dissemination of her testimony, what is Mrs. DeLay afraid of? It's not like the media has paid a lot of attention to this case. I don't know what to expect regarding the final two requests.

Let's spend a moment talking about Mrs. DeLay's new attorney, Charles W. McIntyre of McGuireWoods. Mr. McIntyre is a colleague of Tom DeLay's DC-based lawyer Richard Cullen. Both work at McGuireWoods. According to the Washington Post, Mr. McIntyre once commented on a retirement account in Mrs. DeLay's name funded by Alexander Strategy Group owner Ed Buckham. (This is the no-show job I wrote about yesterday)

[Richard] Cullen said that the Schwab account was a routine way for Buckham to contribute to an employee's retirement needs and that Christine DeLay, like others who worked at Buckham's now-defunct lobbying firm, received funds for the account as a percentage of her income during her employment. Charles Wm. McIntyre, a colleague of Cullen's at the McGuireWoods law firm, said DeLay and his office are unaware of any particular interest in the retirement account by federal investigators.

The same names and the same lawyers keep popping up all the time, don't they?

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Where's Waldo?

Remember Trevor Blackann? He was the Congressional staffer who recently pleaded guilty in the United Rentals episode.

I mentioned that Mr. Blackann's wife is Laura Blackann. I claimed this scandal is incestuous because the same names keep popping up again and again. Anyway, read the Washington Post article I linked to above. See if you can spot the role Laura Blackann played.