Did The Lawyer's Affair Lead To Murder?

Well, not according to his attorney:

Mr. Perez-Olivo’s lawyer, Robert A. Buckley of Manhattan, said on Friday that his client’s affair with the woman, Ileana Poole, ended about 18 months before the shooting. After the breakup, he said, Mr. Perez-Olivo maintained “continued limited contact” and sent the flowers simply “because it was somebody he still cared about.”

“The affair had nothing to do with the marriage,” Mr. Buckley said. “The relationship between him and Peggy was much deeper than sex. If we indicted every man for murder who underpaid his taxes and slept outside the marital bed, we’d need a lot more jails.”

Mr. Perez-Olivo, who moved into a house in the same cul-de-sac as the Clintons in early 2006, told detectives shortly after the shooting that he had met the woman, Ileana Santana, in 1996 at a shoe store in Puerto Rico where she was working, and continued to see her even after she married a man from Georgia and moved there, taking the married name Poole.

Sometimes I think this story gets so much press because he was Hillary and Bill's neighbor.