From USA TODAY:
…The court-appointed investigator who found rampant misconduct in the corruption prosecution of former Alaska senator Ted Stevens said during a Senate hearing Wednesday that federal prosecutors’ actions were “illegal,” but he stopped short of suggesting they should be charged with crimes….
In his first extended public comments since issuing the report March 15, Schuelke told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Stevens prosecutors were part of a culture in which winning the case was the “primary operative motive.”…
Among the failures outlined in Schuelke’s report was a prosecution “permeated by the systematic concealment” of evidence favorable to the defense. The report described a rogue team of prosecutors and federal agents who allegedly allowed its star witness to give false testimony before a jury that later found Stevens guilty of seven counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure statements…
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EDITOR: If prosecutors do this in a case against a four term U. S. Senator, we can deduce what they can do with a common citizen.
