Thursday, January 15, 2009

Secret info unsealed in Stevens whistleblower complaint revealed.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan this evening released a second, fuller version of the whistleblower complaint that claims an FBI special agent and members of the prosecution team in the Ted Stevens case intentionally withheld evidence from the senator’s lawyers at trial. A copy of the complaint, which includes details that were previously blacked out, appears here.

FBI Special Agent Chad Joy, the co-case agent working the Stevens investigation in Alaska, is the whistleblower. He contends that a fellow agent “mishandled her sources by becoming too close to each of them.” Joy also accuses Nicholas Marsh, a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, of attempting to conceal exculpatory information from the Williams & Connolly lawyers representing Stevens
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