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...Lenzner's brand of "oppo research" isn't unique. Muckraking in Washington and on behalf of FORTUNE 500 companies is pretty much s.o.p. in the p.i. world. So Oracle's hiring of I.G.I. to try to get the goods on Microsoft's secret support of three "advocacy groups" isn't all that shocking. Neither is the fact that I.G.I.'s investigation uncovered Microsoft's financial support of the groups...
...Terry Lenzner, chairman of the Washington-based Investigative Group International, is no stranger to scandal. In fact, it's his livelihood...
Since founding I.G.I. in 1984, Lenzner, 61, has assembled a client list that ranges from Mike Tyson to Ivana Trump, plus such corporations as Drexel Burnham Lambert, the lottery operator Gtech and AOL. The lawyer and former civil servant has dished dirt on tobacco whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand and the United Way's wayward William Aramony. In the early '90s, Lenzner even investigated the Paula Jones case for the Clinton camp, sealing his reputation as an official FOB, or Friend of Bill...
Sources close to the Harvard-trained Lenzner say client-confidentiality agreements and his attorney's sense of ethics often prevent him from speaking publicly about I.G.I. investigations. In a statement last week, Lenzner asserted that all I.G.I.'s actions have been legal. In Washington, where he earned his stripes as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1972, Lenzner has amassed a circle of powerful friends that includes Cokie Roberts, former Senator Tim Worth and Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and his wife Brooke Shearer. Lenzner's son Jon, 26, defended his dad's professional tactics...
...information provided to him by the White House counsel's office. Specifically, McCurry had flatly denied that anyone connected with the White House had hired or authorized private investigators to probe the background of prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A day later, on Monday, longtime Democratic operative Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton's lawyers and told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left to reconcile a contradiction not even of his own making. When his colleagues on the communications team saw him emerge...