NV: Gibbons Retains Top Criminal Lawyer

The Wall Street Journal (3/5, A6, Wilke, 2.04M) reports, "Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, facing a federal investigation of whether he accepted improper gifts or payments from a federal contractor, retained Abbe Lowell, one of the nation's best-known criminal defense lawyers." Gibbons "represented Nevada in Congress for five terms before his election as governor last year. He served on the House intelligence and armed services committees, and used his position to help a Reno software maker, eTreppid Technologies LLC, seek federal contracts." Gibbons and eTreppid's owner, Warren Trepp, "said they did nothing improper."