Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Wuzzafukisdis?

Oh, there had better be some heads rolling on this one.....

The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday to drop its case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted of seven felony counts of corruption last fall.

Attorney General Eric Holder decided to abandon the case due to prosecutorial misconduct -- one Justice Department source called the stunning turnaround a "black eye" on the department and the FBI.

Stevens was convicted last year of lying on a Senate disclosure form in order to hide $250,000 in gifts he received from an oil company executive and friends.

Only after the conviction did allegations of FBI misconduct come to light. The judge in the case has repeatedly delayed sentencing Stevens, and at one point he held prosecutors in contempt. Justice Department officials later replaced the trial team.

Well, how fucking convenient. I'm tellin' ya, this raises a whole host of questions, none of them good.

Given that the prosecutorial misconduct is bad enough that the entire case might get dumped, what actions were done by the prosecuting team?

The timing of this trial is also suspicious, given that the Democrat American Communist Party tried (at least partly successfully) to tie Stevens around the neck of Sarah Palin?

Are the convictions against Stevens going to be dropped, or just the ongoing case? IS there even an ongoing case?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......

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