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Gary Condit Refuses to Go Quietly

Six years after the disappearance of Washington's second-most famous intern, Chandra Levy's former paramour and ex-congressman Gary Condit is back in the news. On Sept. 24, an Arizona judge ordered Condit to pay $43,000 in legal fees to the editor and publisher of the tiny Sonoran News for bringing a frivolous libel suit against the paper, which had no libel insurance. Condit has filed a host of similar suits against other publications that covered the Levy investigation, most of which have since been dropped.

Serial plaintiff Condit is also about to become a defendant. The Modesto Bee reports that his Baskin-Robbins franchise has flopped, and his former business partners are about to sue him over his role in the meltdown.

Comments

Guess what? I knew the Condits back in the mid '70's when they first started their "Disposal for Hire" service.
That's 30 years of doing "Favors" for Congressmen...
Chandra wasn't the first and sure wasn't the last.
The nice thing? I finally have the ears of Congress in writing from the likes of Sen. Enzi and Rep. Cubin who have said they're going to look into my story.
Hope it happens...

Posted by: Rick A Hyatt on 09/28/07 at 7:35 PM

Rick - you mean that there were other cases like the Levy case associated with Condit? I'm trying to remember what huge national event came along and blanketed the coverage of Chandra's disappearance and then the finding of the body. I think it may have been 9-11.

Posted by: Paul Miller on 09/29/07 at 6:13 AM