Question: Which former lawyer and entrepreneur who was convicted for conspiracy and drug dealing was involved in a civil suit against Bill and Hillary Clinton?

full_context: Document 1: Lewinsky scandal: The Lewinsky scandal was an American political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The sexual relationship took place between 1995 and 1996 and came to light in 1998. Clinton ended a televised speech with the statement that he did not have sexual relations with Lewinsky. Further investigation led to charges of perjury and to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was subsequently acquitted on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial. Clinton was held in civil contempt of court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving misleading testimony in the Paula Jones case regarding Lewinsky and was also fined $90,000 by Wright. His license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas for five years; shortly thereafter, he was disbarred from presenting cases in front of the United States Supreme Court.
Document 2: Gerald B. Lefcourt: Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including such clients as the Black Panthers, Abbie Hoffman, Harry Helmsley, a co-defendant of Michael Milken, former New York State Assembly Speaker, Mel Miller, Russell Crowe, and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. Recent victories include a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. Lefcourt is currently one of the attorneys in the federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States.
Document 3: Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008: The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then junior United States Senator from New York, was announced on her website on January 20, 2007. Hillary Clinton was previously the First Lady of the United States and First Lady of Arkansas prior to her election as U.S. Senator from New York. She is also the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was the source of much media speculation since having expressed interest in being a candidate in the 2008 presidential election since at least October 2002.
Document 4: Paul v. Clinton: Paul v. Clinton was a civil suit filed in 2004 held in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The plaintiff, Peter F. Paul, alleged that President Bill Clinton and his wife, First Lady Hillary Clinton, deceived him into paying for the Gala Hollywood Farewell Salute to President Clinton, during Hillary Clinton's first Senate race in 2000, by making a promise that the President would work for Paul's company, Stan Lee Media, after his presidential term was over. Paul alleged that the President broke his promise and stole his business partner, causing his business to crumble and, further, that his contributions to Hillary Clinton's campaign were falsely reported to the Federal Election Commission. Besides the Clintons, three other individuals who were involved in fundraising for the gala, were named as defendants in the suit.
Document 5: Clinton crazies: "Clinton crazies" is a term in American politics of the 1990s and later that refers to intense criticism of United States President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton. The phrase is a succinct amalgamation of the claim by Clinton supporters who argue that Clinton opponents, throughout his presidency, "systematically ... sought to undermine this president with the goal of bringing down his presidency and running him out of office; and that they have sought non‐electoral means to remove him from office." Such intensity of feeling existed throughout the Clinton years, leading commentators to wonder what was at the root of it. The term was especially used in reference to people and media outlets that focused on all manner of Clinton scandals and controversies, some of which had substance behind them and some of which did not. In particular, there was a tendency towards the holding of conspiracy theories among these people and outlets.
Document 6: Bradley D. Simon: Bradley D. Simon is the Founding Partner of Simon & Partners LLP, which represents both corporations and individuals in the areas of white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation and corporate compliance. Mr. Simon started the firm in 1998 with a New York City office, and has since grown the business with presences in Washington D.C., and most recently London. Mr. Simon has represented several defendants involved in high-profile cases, including: Alan Hevesi in connection with then New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, investigation into the New York State Pension Fund scandal., David Chang in connection with bribery and corruption charges that led to the resignation of former New Jersey Senator Robert G. Torricelli., UK Solicitor Jeffrey Tesler against charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when working with Halliburton in Nigeria and James Marquez of Bayou Hedge Fund Group in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a hedge fund. Through aggressive representations, Mr. Simon has earned a reputation as a strong advocate for clients in highly public, combative cases, as stated in the "New York Times" story with regard to Alan Hevesi’s choice to switch lawyers in the middle of his defense.
Document 7: Paul Bilzerian: Paul Alec Bilzerian (born 1950) is an American corporate takeover specialist. Convicted of securities and tax laws violations relating to unsuccessful takeover attempts of various companies in the 1980s, Bilzerian served a prison sentence and was also ordered to disgorge his profits, leading him to bankruptcy and ongoing disputes with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Document 8: Wilson v. Libby: Wilson v. Cheney, 498 F.Supp.2d 74, viz. "Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson IV, ..., Plaintiffs, v. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, Richard L. Armitage and John Does Nos. 1–10, Defendants", was a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on 13 July, 2006, by Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, against Richard Armitage (individually) for allegedly revealing her identity and thus irresponsibly infringing upon her Constitutional rights and against Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, and the unnamed others (together) because the latter, in addition, allegedly "illegally conspired to reveal her identity." The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed.
Document 9: Peter Thiel: Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He was ranked No. 4 on the "Forbes" Midas List of 2014, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, and No. 246 on the "Forbes" 400 in 2016, with a net worth of $2.7 billion.
Document 10: Peter F. Paul: Peter Franklin Paul (born September 2, 1948) is a former lawyer and entrepreneur who was convicted for conspiracy and drug dealing, and later for securities fraud in connection with his business dealings with "Spider-Man" co-creator Stan Lee. He has repeatedly brought suit against Hillary Clinton, accusing her of lying about donations he solicited on behalf of her 2000 senatorial campaign.
Document 11: Bill Clinton judicial appointment controversies: During President Bill Clinton's first and second terms of office, he nominated 24 people for 20 federal appellate judgeships but the nominees were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Three of the nominees who were not processed (Christine Arguello, Andre M. Davis and S. Elizabeth Gibson) were nominated after July 1, 2000, the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year. Democrats claim that Senate Republicans of the 106th Congress purposely tried to keep open particular judgeships as a political maneuver to allow a future Republican president to fill them. Of the 20 seats in question, four were eventually filled with different Clinton nominees, fourteen were later filled with Republican nominees by President George W. Bush and two continued to stay open during Bush's presidency. Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader of the United States Senate during the 110th Congress, and Senator Patrick Leahy, the Democratic leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee under Reid, repeatedly mentioned the controversy over President Clinton's court of appeals nominees during the controversy involving the confirmation of Republican court of appeals nominees during the last two years of Bush's second term. Republicans claimed that Democrats were refusing to confirm certain longstanding Bush nominees in order to allow a future Democratic president in 2009 to fill those judgeships.
Document 12: Linda Medlar: Linda Medlar-Jones was a principal figure in a high-profile political sex scandal that triggered an exhaustive 2 ½ year, multimillion-dollar investigation by the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The principal target of the investigation was her former lover, Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Gabriel Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas.
Document 13: Clinton family: The Clinton family is a prominent American political family related to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001), and his wife Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State (2009–13), Senator from New York (2001–09) and the First Lady of the United States (1993–2001). Their immediate family was the First Family of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee from a major political party in United States history. The Clintons (Bill and Hillary) are the first married couple to each be nominated for president. She was defeated in the election by businessman Donald Trump.
Document 14: Peter W. Smith: Peter W. Smith (February 23, 1936 – May 14, 2017) was an American investment banker from Chicago. He had a 40-year career managing corporate acquisitions and venture investments. He was active in Republican politics. In 1998 he was identified as a major financial supporter of the 1993 Troopergate story, in which several Arkansas state troopers accused U.S. President Bill Clinton of having carried out sexual dalliances while he was Governor of Arkansas. In 2017 he confirmed to the "Wall Street Journal" that he had tried in 2016 to contact computer hackers, including Russian hackers, in an attempt to obtain opposition research material to use against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Ten days after speaking to the paper, he committed suicide in a hotel room, citing ill health.
Document 15: Frank Vennes: Frank Elroy Vennes Jr. is an American multimillionaire and convicted money launderer. He was the primary fundraiser for Tom Petters, who was convicted of organizing a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme in Minnesota. Vennes was previously convicted on federal charges of money laundering, illegal firearm sales and cocaine distribution in 1987. He experienced a religious transformation while incarcerated and became a major political contributor and business leader after his release in 1990. Vennes' homes were raided by federal agents in connection with the Petters Ponzi scheme in 2008. In July 2011, he was charged with eight counts of securities fraud, six counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, three counts of bank fraud, and two counts of mail fraud. On February 1, 2013, Vennes pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and money laundering and on October 18, 2013, he was sentenced to 15 years in Federal prison.
ground_truth: Peter F. Paul