{"id":987,"date":"2004-12-15T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_l_2\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T21:46:46","slug":"virginia_news_l_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_l_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News:  Lawyers Win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state GOP may be the losers, but that doesn\u2019t necessarily make the Democrats financial winners in the eavesdropping scandal.   But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031779685768&#038;path=%21news&#038;s=\">this<\/a> shouldn\u2019t surprise you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Washington law firm will receive almost half of the $750,000 settlement that the Republican Party of Virginia and four other defendants have agreed to pay in an eavesdropping lawsuit filed by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>That means that each of the 33 plaintiffs, mostly current and former legislators, will receive about $11,000 in the settlement, Democratic sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the recipients are unhappy about the large legal fee, Democrats said.<\/p>\n<p>The law firm of Williams &#038; Connolly represented the Democrats, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court here seeking civil damages from the Republican Party and others involved in the eavesdropping scandal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state GOP may be the losers, but that doesn\u2019t necessarily make the Democrats financial winners in the eavesdropping scandal. But this shouldn\u2019t surprise you. A Washington law firm will receive almost half of the $750,000 settlement that the Republican Party of Virginia and four other defendants have agreed to pay in an eavesdropping lawsuit&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_l_2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}