Henry Schuelke, the Washington lawyer tapped to investigate the Justice Department prosecution team in the Ted Stevens case for possible criminal contempt, was granted authority this evening to issue subpoenas for documents and deposition testimony.
Schuelke’s two-page request—click here for a copy—asked for permission to take “deposition testimony under oath and, if necessary, to issue subpoenas to compel” the lawyers under investigation to provide, among other things, documents and data. A federal judge immediately granted the request.
The lawyers under investigation are the DOJ Public Integrity Section chief, William Welch II; the principal deputy chief, Brenda Morris; Public Integrity trial attorneys Nicholas Marsh and Edward Sullivan; and assistant U.S. attorneys Joseph Bottini and James Goeke.
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