Whistle-blower adds twist to Stevens case (accuses government of misconduct.)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/stevens/story/630036.html?pageNum=3&&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container

A whistle-blower inside the Justice Department has accused members of the team investigating public corruption in Alaska of official misconduct, according to the judge who presided over Sen. Ted Stevens' trial in Washington, D.C.

Sullivan revealed the existence of the complaint, and three secret hearings about it last week, in his 29-page order. Sullivan said little about the nature of the alleged misconduct. Among the allegations was that a government employee accepted "multiple things of value" from sources cooperating in the investigation, Sullivan said.

The judge also reported that the whistle-blower accused at least two federal employees of intentionally violating government policies in the corruption investigation in Alaska and in connection with material that was supposed to be provided to Stevens for his defense, Sullivan said.

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Prosecutors asserted the complaint bore "no relationship whatsoever" to the Stevens case. "The court flatly rejects the government's position," Sullivan wrote. The complaint alleged a person involved in the investigation accepted "multiple things of value," including "artwork and employment for a relative" from cooperating sources, the judge noted with some irony.
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Also at:

http://www.themudflats.net/2008/12/20/whistleblower-from-the-doj-points-finger-at-prosecution-in-stevens-trial/

[napi21]

1. Sounds like both the WB & Stevens are guilty of misconduct.

That doesn't exonerate Stevens. Sounds like it just outed another case of corruption.

[rainbow4321]

2. Updated: It was an FBI agent who blew the whistle

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/stevens/story/631518.html?pageNum=3&&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container


A five-year FBI agent assigned to the Alaska corruption investigation is the whistleblower who brought a complaint of misconduct against other agents and at least one prosecutor involved in the trial of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.

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The whistleblower's name was blacked out, as were the names of nearly everyone else in his complaint. But the whistleblower's explosive allegations about misconduct by other members of the FBI and the prosecution suggest intimate, firsthand knowledge of the full investigation from the start, and of the activities surrounding Stevens' trial.

"I have witnessed or learned of serious violations of policy, rules and procedures as well as possible criminal violations," the whistleblower asserted in his complaint to the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.

The whistleblower said agents got too close to sources, took gifts and favors from sources, and revealed confidential grand jury and investigation information to sources and reporters.