tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383772914939427705.post2476093351392254922..comments2023-10-30T02:33:51.535-08:00Comments on Alaska Political Corruption: Justice Department Asks an Appellate Court to Release Pete Kott and Vic Kohring, At Least for the MomentCliff Grohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13494299086745035172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383772914939427705.post-77987379161358616902009-06-06T05:59:43.081-08:002009-06-06T05:59:43.081-08:00This just in........
http://www.washingtonpost.co...This just in........<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503725.html?hpid=sec-nation<br /><br />Two in Justice's Integrity Section Transferred<br /> <br />By Carrie Johnson<br />Washington Post Staff Writer<br />Saturday, June 6, 2009<br /><br />Justice Department leaders quietly transferred two career prosecutors under fire for their work in Alaska corruption cases out of the department's public integrity section this week as scrutiny of the troubled unit intensifies, according to two sources.<br /><br />Prosecutors Nicholas Marsh and Edward Sullivan received notice of their reassignment Thursday, the same day that department officials petitioned an appeals court to release from prison two Alaska legislators convicted of bribery and extortion offenses, said the sources, who requested anonymity to speak about the personnel issue. <br /><br />more......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383772914939427705.post-17028222028781621022009-06-05T11:35:23.592-08:002009-06-05T11:35:23.592-08:00Nicholas Marsh and James Goeke were the trial pros...Nicholas Marsh and James Goeke were the trial prosecutors of Pete Kott. Joseph Bottini and Edward Sullivan were the trial prosecutors of Vic Kohring. The prosecutors at the table during the Ted Stevens trial were Brenda Morris, Nicholas Marsh, and Joseph Bottini, with James Goeke and Edward Sullivan doing much of the writing and office work and not speaking in front of the jury. William Welch apparently became Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section in August of 2006and then Chief of the Section in March of 2007 (at that point reportedly the fifth head of the section in four years). The Public Integrity Section ran these prosecutions, because even when Assistant U.S. Attorneys from Alaska like James Goeke and Joseph Bottini worked on the cases they did so under Public Integrity Section supervision as the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alaska was recused from the public corruption investigation. All six of the prosecutors named in this paragraph appear to be under investigation in two parallel probes, one conducted by DoJ's Office of Professional Responsibility and one conducted by independent counsel Henry Schuelke at the direction of District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan.Cliff Grohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494299086745035172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383772914939427705.post-39865238710439906112009-06-05T06:08:43.939-08:002009-06-05T06:08:43.939-08:00TPM Muckraker (not the most reliable source) says ...TPM Muckraker (not the most reliable source) says the prosecution team on this case was largely the same as that responsible for Stevens.<br /><br />"It was also the same DOJ prosecution team. Five of the six prosecutors in the Stevens case -- William Welch, Joseph Bottini, James Goeke, Nicholas Marsh, and Edward Sullivan -- ran the Kohring and Kott prosecutions."<br /><br />Is that right? What is the status of these lawyers?mlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18131922018659858309noreply@blogger.com