The Justice Department is assigning the corruption case of former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska to a different legal team to handle accusations of prosecutorial misconduct.
A federal judge dropped contempt charges against a Justice Department lawyer after concluding he was not responsible for the failure to deliver documents to former Senator Ted Stevens’s legal team.
An angry federal judge held Justice Department lawyers in contempt yesterday for failing to deliver documents to former senator Ted Stevens's legal team, as he had ordered.
The federal judge who presided over the trial of former Senator Ted Stevens ruled that four Justice Department lawyers involved with the case were in contempt of court.
An F.B.I. agent who worked on the investigation of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska also said that a fellow agent maintained an inappropriate relationship with a witness for the prosecution.