Richard Hohlt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article (or section) may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please help improve this article, especially its section layout, and relevant internal links. (help)
This article has been tagged since February 2007.

An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines.

If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. (See also Wikipedia:Notability)
This article has been tagged since February 2007.

Richard F. Hohlt (born December 4, 1947, in Indianapolis, IN.) is currently a Washington D.C. lobbyist. Hohlt was recently cited as a daily contact by Robert Novak in the perjury trial of Lewis Libby and is now known as one of Robert Novak's primary sources in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Robert Novak also testified that after writing his article that outed Valerie Plame, he sent a preview copy to Hohlt.[1] Hohlt has acknowledged to journalist Michael Isikoff that he then faxed it to Karl Rove, one of Novak's two other senior administration sources. [2]

Hohlt currently represents companies like Sallie Mae, Bristol Myers, Chevron, the Federalist Group, JPMorgan Chase and the Nuclear Energy Association according to the Center for Responsive Politics.[3]. He is also the leader of a group of washington insiders called the "Off the Record Club" and is known as an "information broker" in political circles. Other members of this club include lobbyists Kenneth Duberstein, Charles Black Jr. and Vin Weber. They have been known to host Karl Rove and Joshua Bolten on occasion and actively participate in white house political strategizing. Hohlt has been referred to as a regular background source of information for Robert Novak [4] and other journalists. He is also a major fundraiser for the Republican Party and has reached the status of "Super Ranger" based on raising more than $500,000 for George W. Bush's reelection.

Hohlt graduated from Milliken University (B.S., 1970), he served in the Air Force Reserves, 1970 - 1976. He was appointed by George H.W. Bush as a member of the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association, he also served as senior vice president of government affairs at the United States League of Savings Institutions in Washington, DC. Prior to this he served as executive assistant to United States Senator Richard G. Lugar.[5] He is married to Deborah Lee Messick[6], a former deputy director of communications at the Republican National Committee and publicist. [7]

Robert Novak, during his testimony at the Lewis Libby trial, named Richard Hohlt as a primary and often used source. Newsweek contributor Michael Isikoff reports that Novak gave Richard Hohlt unusual advance copy of Novak's article 'outing' Valerie Plame, which Hohlt then passed on to Karl Rove in three days in advance of the article's publication.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/i/c/Richard_Hohlt_84ca.html"