TPMMuckraker Don Siegelman: April 2009
Don Siegelman
Seventy-Five Ex-AGs To Holder: Review Siegelman Case
Zachary Roth | April 22, 2009, 5:29PM
Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman is stepping up his campaign to persuade Attorney General Eric Holder to take another look at his case.
Seventy-five former state attorneys general, including ten Republicans, have sent a letter to Holder saying that Siegelman's defense lawyers have raised "gravely troublesome facts" about whether he got a fair trial, reports the New York Times. The letter cites Holder's recent decision to ask that the charges against Ted Stevens be dropped, thanks to prosecutors' failure to turn over evidence to the defense, as required. It argues that there is evidence of similar misconduct in Siegelman's case, and that the charges should similarly be dropped if that's borne out in an investigation.
Topics: DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility, Don Siegelman, Justice Department, Ted Stevens
Alaska
Keying Off Stevens Decision, Siegelman Steps Up Push To Have His Own Charges Dropped
Zachary Roth | April 7, 2009, 2:23PM
In the wake of the charges being dropped agaisnt Ted Stevens, is pressure building on the Justice Department to make a similar decision on behalf of Don Siegelman?
A lawyer for the former Alabama governor -- who last week told TPMmuckraker that the misconduct in his own case "dwarf[s]" that in Stevens' -- sent a letter Friday to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking that Holder review the evidence of "serious and pervasive" prosecutorial misconduct in Siegelman's case.
Topics: Alaska, Don Siegelman, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Ted Stevens, U.S. Attorneys
Alaska
Siegelman: Stevens Case Is Dropped, So Why Not Mine?
Zachary Roth | April 1, 2009, 7:04PM
For Don Siegelman, DOJ's decision on Ted Stevens just adds insult to injury.
"There seems to be substantial evidence of prosecutorial and other misconduct in my case, that would dwarf the allegations in the Stevens case," the former Alabama governor told TPMmuckraker in an interview moments ago.
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