Thursday, March 27, 2008

Feinstein Questions Mukasey on Disbanding of LA Public Corruption Unit.

Interesting... And now she wants answers to the man that she voted for as AG.

TPM:

Last week, the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles disbanded his office's public corruption unit.
Current and former prosecutors from the office
said that the move will hurt the office's ability to take on crooked pols (while LA USA Thomas O'Brien has argued the opposite). We also posted an email from a former prosecutor in the office saying that O'Brien may have handled the move badly (by reportedly threatening lawyers in the unit to stay quiet about the move), but he's "no Rachel Paulose."

Given that the major role that the LA office plays, however, (including its handling of the investigation of Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)). Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wants some answers about the move. So yesterday she sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey -- who, perhaps coincidentally, is giving a speech today in California about the Department's public corruption efforts.

You can read the letter in full below.

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1 comment:

airJackie said...

The pot calling the kettle black. Diane is only doing to so the Bush Administration will give her husband another contract. Diane and Chuck put Musk Rat in office because of their kick backs. Now that the House of Crimes is falling Diane trying to act like she's on the side of Justice and the People. Don't worry I'll write the now famous LA Times that might work. I'll say I'm a Pulitzer Prize winner it might work for me as it did for the man in jail.