Scooter Libby has been found guilty on Counts One, Two, Four, and Five. He was found not-guilty on Count Three.
It’s Fitzmas!!!
emptywheel is reporting that the Scooter Libby verdict will be read at noon eastern time. Keep your fingers crossed.
Update [2007-3-6 12:18:45 by BooMan]: From emptywheel:
Pre-sentence investigation will be conductded. Report due May 15. Mr Libby will need to make arrangements with probation department. Will give counsel until May 25 dispute with probation.
Wells makes a formal motion to have appeal period extended.
Best I can do is give you until April 15. I can give gov’t until the 11 of May. Any reply filed by 23 of May. No objection to continuing bail pending appeal.
Update [2007-3-6 12:32:3 by BooMan]: Ted Wells, Libby’s attorney, spoke briefly with the press. He said he will file a motion for a new trial. (Will not happen). Then he will appeal. None of this surprising.
Here is the third count. This is the count that the jury ruled not-guilty on.
THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES:
1. The Grand Jury realleges Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Count Two as though fully set forth herein.
2. On or about October 14 and November 26, 2003, in the District of Columbia,
I. LEWIS LIBBY, also known as “SCOOTER LIBBY,”
defendant herein, did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency within the executive branch of the United States, in that the defendant, in response to questions posed to him by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stated that:
During a conversation with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine on July 12, 2003, LIBBY told Cooper that reporters were telling the administration that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA, but LIBBY did not know if this was true.
3. As defendant LIBBY well knew when he made it, this statement was false in that:
LIBBY did not advise Cooper on or about July 12, 2003 that reporters were telling the administration that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA, nor did LIBBY advise him that LIBBY did not know whether this was true; rather, LIBBY confirmed for Cooper, without qualification, that LIBBY had heard that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA;
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001(a)(2).