Yes, he did:
Three weeks after Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to three federal felony crimes, Rep. John Doolittle turned for legal advice concerning his own association with Abramoff to a former associate of special prosecutor Ken Starr whose legal specialties now include white-collar crime and public corruption. . . .
A Doolittle aide, Richard Robinson, said the attorney handling Doolittle’s inquiry is David G. Barger. Barger is the former president of the Virginia Bar Association’s criminal law section and a former assistant U.S. attorney, who later was an associate of Starr’s in the Whitewater investigation. . . .
Robinson said that the campaign hired Barger to address the congressman’s concerns about how he should respond to questions from the press as he contemplated having to talk about the scandal as part of his campaign for re-election.
