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By Azi Paybarah 8/20/07 4:35pm

Baum’s Lawyer, a Veteran of Clinton Probes

The New York Law Journal is reporting that the lawyer retained by Eliot Spitzer’s top aide, Rich Baum, is Steven F. Reich.

Reich is a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Philips, LLP, which currently employs Spitzer’s onetime electoral opponent John Faso.

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