Who are those guys?

Fascinating Daily Howler today delving into they mystery that is Patrick Fitzgerald. Quoting a David Von Drehle and Dan Eggen profile published in the January 1, 2004 Washington Post, he points to this interesting biographical item:

Patrick Fitzgerald is the son of Irish immigrants -- "fresh off the boat," in the words of John Goggins, a prominent corporate lawyer in New York who has known Fitzgerald since high school. He grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and won a scholarship to Regis High School in Manhattan, a highly competitive Jesuit academy.

He worked his way through Amherst College, cleaning the school's restrooms and painting walls. In summers, the math and economics major earned more tuition money as a school janitor and part-time doorman in some of the same Upper East Side luxury buildings where his father had worked as a doorman for years.

Fitzgerald got his fill of rich and powerful people that way, Goggins said.

"He had numerous funny anecdotes about being treated shabbily by residents who didn't realize this was a Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst, and later a Harvard Law School student, holding the door." According to his friends, Fitzgerald never resented the slights, but he also made it clear that he was never going to seek the approval of such people.

Howler:

Eek! A brilliant, hard-nosed prosecutor who “got his fill of rich and powerful people” as a youth? If we were a leaker-gone-wrong in the White House, we’d be asking: Who hired this guy?

Brought to mind that tracker who stalked Butch and Sundance:

Butch Cassidy: Ah, you're wasting your time. They can't track us over rocks.
Sundance Kid: Tell them that.
Butch Cassidy: [after looking for himself] Who are those guys?