US Atty Investigated on Siegelman Prosecution
The website Raw Story reports yesterday that the US Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the conduct of U.S. Attorney Leura Canary related to “allegations of selective prosecution” of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, among others.
In a May 5 letter sent to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), OPR Director H. Marshall Jarrett wrote that OPR “currently has pending investigations involving, among others, allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”
RAW STORY has confirmed that Leura Canary, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Dunnica Lampton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi , are under investigation. Their offices are also being probed.
Lampton’s office prosecuted Diaz and Minor.
The whole story is here.
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Is this a credible source? I’ll believe it when I read it somewhere other than a left wing blog.
Comment by Anonymous — June 6, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
No, this is not a credible source.
Comment by Anonymous — June 6, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Hey #2, thank you for providing the definitive and final word. I think I will choose to believe your anonymous comment, even though you provided no elaboration or evidence, over a letter from the DoJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility mentioning their pending investigations of selective prosecution of Siegelman and others, a letter that can be found on the internet (not just text, but the image). Took me about 30 seconds. But you, you are probably right.
Comment by Anonymous — June 6, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
#3 - old news - this woman who writes is a paid hack with no credibility. Only took me about 20 seconds to determine that.
Comment by Anonymous — June 6, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
The story does little more than repeat a well known report:
“In a May 5 letter sent to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), OPR Director H. Marshall Jarrett wrote that OPR “currently has pending investigations involving, among others, allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”
Now the question is as to whether this is a real investigation or just a PR ruse designed to keep congress from looking into it. My guess would be the latter. Given the past performance of the DOJ, I would not look for anything of substance to happen until after January 2009. That said, there is no doubt that professionals within the DOJ are collecting and securing materials that will be key to the real investigations that will happen then.
Comment by Pecan Jim — June 7, 2008 @ 5:03 am
The other possibility is that the inevitable has occcurred: Due to mounting pressure and the natural desire to protect ones self, someone from the inside may be cooperating with the investigation and supplying information. THis would account for this new focus on Canary’s office specifically.
This has happnened in every scandal throughout history. Gravano rolled on Gotti, Dean on Nixon, etc.
Comment by GOPBilly — June 7, 2008 @ 7:37 am
#1, as Pecan Jim indicated, much of this is already out elsewhere.
#2 & #4, there is some evidence that Raw Story has a good track record (e.g., here). If you have evidence to the contrary, I’d like to see it. Thanks.
FWIW, here is a copy of the letter from DoJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility to John Conyers.
Comment by Danny — June 7, 2008 @ 8:06 am