Ted Kang, partner in the firm’s Government & Internal Investigations Group, was quoted in The Washington Post in an article discussing the Department of Justice’s criminal bribery charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife for allegedly having accepted gifts and other things of value from a wealthy Richmond-area businessman. According to the article, the former governor’s attorneys are filing aggressive motions in an effort to mount a defense that the former governor and his wife took no “official” actions in return for the things of value at issue.
“There’s a theme that’s developing here, and the theme is synonymous with what the former governor has said since the indictment was announced,” Kang said.
“It’s like a chess game. You can’t just come out and say, ‘Oh, there were no official actions.’ You’ve got to build up to that.”