Plato Cacheris

Plato Cacheris is an American lawyer.

Cacheris is the son of a Greek immigrant. He grew up in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father co-owned a chain of restaurants including the historic downtown restaurant The Waffle Shop in Washington, D.C. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101391_2.html] In 1951, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps as an officer candidate, but left in 1953 to enter law school. Cacheris graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law Center in 1956. He is currently a name partner in the law firm of Trout and Cacheris [http://www.troutcacheris.com] in Washington, DC. [http://www.troutcacheris.com/attorneys-p-cacheris.php]

Cacheris has represented various figures in Washington, D.C. scandals, including:

* Defense of Attorney General John N. Mitchell, Watergate scandal figure.
* Defense of Fawn Hall, Iran-Contra scandal figure, who worked with Oliver North.
* Defense of Michael "Ozzy" Meyers, ABSCAM scandal.
* Co-representation, with Jake Stein, of Monica Lewinsky, associate of President William Clinton.
* Plea bargain for CIA turncoat spy Aldrich Ames that got his wife a lighter jail sentence for aiding and abetting Ames' espionage.
* Defense of Robert Hanssen, FBI agent and secret spy for the Soviet Union; a plea bargain allowed him to avoid the death penalty in exchange for complete cooperation in revealing his activities to the government, but not to the public. His wife would receive a "survivor" pension. [Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman, "The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History", Little Brown, 2002, page21 ISBN 0-316-71821-1] .

References

* [http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/legends_in_the_law/cacheris.cfm] , an interview in which Plato Cacheris gives many details about his career and education