LittleSis: Richard Ben-Veniste

Richard Ben-Veniste is a partner in the Washington law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. He served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District New York, from 1968 to 1973, which included service as chief of the Special Prosecution Section from 1971 to 1973. Mr. Ben-Veniste was chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975 and Special Outside Counsel Senate Committee on Government Operations from 1976 to 1977. From May 1995 to June 1996, Mr. Ben-Veniste was chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater Committee. Mr. Ben-Veniste received an A.B. from Muhlenberg College in 1964, an LL.B. from Columbia University Law School in 1967, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1968 under a Ford Foundation fellowship grant. He is a member of the bars of New York and the District of Columbia. Mr. Ben-Veniste is the co-author of Stonewall: The Real Story of the Watergate Prosecution (Simon & Schuster), and has been a guest lecturer at numerous law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown and Fordham. He is a frequent commentator on current affairs involving the intersection of law and politics. Mr. Ben-Veniste has been listed in Who's Who in America since 1975, The Best Lawyers in America since 1983, and Washingtonian Magazine's Top Lawyers in Washington, DC, since 1992, when the list first appeared. Mr. Ben-Veniste is a Presidential appointee to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, which is mandated to review and declassify secret documents relating to World War II era war crimes.

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Tony Podesta	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, John Sarbanes, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Norm Brownstein	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Diana Degette, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, John Sarbanes, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Roselyne Chroman Swig	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, John Sarbanes, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Amy Rothschild Friedkin	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Diana Degette, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Daniel C Tate Jr	Erskine B Bowles, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Mike Ross, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Bernice Manocherian	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Rob Reiner	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Diana Degette, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Mark Pryor, Mike Ross, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Jeffrey Katzenberg	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Maurice Tempelsman	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Michael S. Berman	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Haim Saban	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Michael A Feiner	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Diana Degette, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Ada Horwich	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Thomas Boggs	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, John Conyers Jr, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Debra Ressler Black	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Stephen Malkin	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Harold M Ickes	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Harriet Zimmerman	Erskine B Bowles, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Steve Farber	Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Diana Degette, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Daniel Inouye, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Carol Moseley Braun
Jamie Gorelick	Erskine B Bowles, Bob Kerrey, Barbara Boxer, Bob Casey, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, John Sarbanes, Paul Sarbanes, Tom Daschle, Al Gore, Mel Levine, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee

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Tony Podesta