Andrew Lester Hired As Impeachment Counsel

Edmond attorney Andrew Lester was hired today to serve as special counsel for the House committee looking into possible impeachment proceedings against state Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan.

Lester, of the firm Lester, Loving and Davies, will start work immediately going over evidence in the case and talking with federal prosecutors, Rep. Rex Duncan, committee co-chairman, said today.

Lester's firm was among 10 law firms considered and among four finalists, said Duncan, R-Sand Springs. It helped that the law firm, with about 10 members, is big enough to handle the job, has a former state attorney general, Susan Loving, as a member, and that Lester has committed the time to make the committee's work a priority, Duncan said.

Lester will be paid at least as much as the special counsel who was hired four years ago in the impeachment query against state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher. The special prosecutor in that case was paid between $250 and $275 an hour, officials said.

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