Steve Biskupic

Bush-Era U.S. Attorney Cleared Of Allegations Of Politicized Prosecution

Justin Elliott | June 1, 2010, 6:03PM

George W. Bush and former US Attorney Steven Biskupic (inset)

The Justice Department's internal watchdog has cleared a Bush-era U.S. Attorney of wrongdoing in a years-old episode that sparked suspicions of politicized prosecution during the U.S. Attorneys firing scandal in 2007.

TPMmuckraker covered the story involving Steve Biskupic, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, back in 2007. To summarize, the case involved Biskupic's decision to prosecute a state government bureaucrat in a case that implicated Wisconsin's Democratic governor. When an appeals court slammed the prosecution's theory of the case as "preposterous," suspicions were raised, including by congressional Democrats, that Biskupic was attempting to curry favor with the Bush Administration and avoid being purged in the firings.

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