Judge Orders Misconduct Report In Sen. Stevens Case Released

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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE8171CZ20120208?irpc=932

Judge orders misconduct report in Sen. Stevens case released

Wed Feb 8, 2012 11:36am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered that a 500-page special report detailing federal prosecutors' misconduct in the 2008 corruption trial of the late Senator Ted Stevens be released next month, despite objections by some of the subjects of the report.

The report found "significant, widespread and at times intentional misconduct" by Justice Department prosecutors, according to a brief summary released in November by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan.

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Sullivan said releasing the report, scheduled for March 15, would help the public understand what went wrong with the prosecution and why no criminal contempt proceedings were being pursued against the prosecutors.

Weeks before the 2008 congressional elections, Alaska Senator Stevens was convicted by a jury of lying on his Senate disclosure form to conceal $250,000 in gifts from an oil executive and other friends. He lost his re-election bid and died in a plane crash in 2010 in his home state.

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1. Where did Ted Stevens and Ken Lay end up, anyway? nt

[Major Nikon]

2. Hell

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Dubai, where Jerry Fallwell went.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. They obviously sabotaged their own case. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Back in the Attorney-gate times,

Bush's AG got its hands slapped for "messing up" a case against ....I think it was GE?? that could have, and should have, resulted in a giant fine. But the "goof" caused the case to be stopped.
I remember reading about it and realizing how slick the DOJ was at that time.

And now I am suspicious of that plane crash.