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| Whistleblower Faults Prosecution's Conduct in Stevens Case |
| 2008-12-23 |
| Members of the Justice Department team that investigated and tried Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) withheld evidence and had inappropriate relationships with witnesses, according to an FBI agent who worked on the case. The allegations are contained in a whistleblower complaint made public yesterday. It alleges that FBI agents met with witnesses in their homes and hotel rooms and even provided one source with a bureau-issued cellphone. An FBI agent apparently became so friendly with a key witness that the investigator wore a special outfit when the man testified. "It was a surprise/present for Allen," the complaint alleged, in a reference to former oil executive Bill Allen. The whistleblowing agent, who joined the bureau in 2003, also wrote that members of the prosecution team "created a scheme" to send a witness home before trial and that they inappropriately altered a document later turned over to Stevens's attorneys |
| Posted by:Beavis |