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And more signs of trouble in the Minnesota US Attorney's office:
The waves of resignations that are hitting regional US Attorney Offices don't have a single cause. Some of the resignations are in response to pronouncements coming out of Washington DC, as Pam Blondi continues to do whatever she is told to do by the White House and Todd Blanche continues to function as Trump's personal defense attorney. Some of the departures are statements on ethical concerns about cases they are being forced to pursue or over cases that they have been told to not pursue. Lately, it is exhaustion as the experienced, competent attorneys in the offices leave en masse and the less experienced staff who remain can't pick up the slack.
The Southern District of NY is prosecuting a case against three brothers who are accused of drugging and raping dozens of women. The judge in that case has been exasperated by attorneys from the US Attorney's office who seem unprepared and late with filings to keep the case moving. The men are accused of heinous crimes including history of gang raping women that dates back to their high school days. There's some question about whether the SDNY will screw up the case so badly that the brothers will be found not guilty by the jury.
www.theguardian.com
Another wave of departures in Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office
14 attorneys have left this year, which prosecutors are calling unprecedented.
Another eight federal prosecutors have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
The departures come as the office is reeling after last month’s mass resignation, when six veteran prosecutors quit because of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice. That included the department’s refusal to initiate a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross.
Among those leaving is Ana Voss, the civil division chief, who has been the point person handling hundreds of wrongful detention petitions that have flooded the office since ICE agents began their immigration crackdown in December. Voss recently wrote in a legal brief that she was unable to “effectively triage and review” every judicial order. Voss could not be reached for comment.
The waves of resignations that are hitting regional US Attorney Offices don't have a single cause. Some of the resignations are in response to pronouncements coming out of Washington DC, as Pam Blondi continues to do whatever she is told to do by the White House and Todd Blanche continues to function as Trump's personal defense attorney. Some of the departures are statements on ethical concerns about cases they are being forced to pursue or over cases that they have been told to not pursue. Lately, it is exhaustion as the experienced, competent attorneys in the offices leave en masse and the less experienced staff who remain can't pick up the slack.
The Southern District of NY is prosecuting a case against three brothers who are accused of drugging and raping dozens of women. The judge in that case has been exasperated by attorneys from the US Attorney's office who seem unprepared and late with filings to keep the case moving. The men are accused of heinous crimes including history of gang raping women that dates back to their high school days. There's some question about whether the SDNY will screw up the case so badly that the brothers will be found not guilty by the jury.
Brothers were predators masquerading as party boys, New York court hears
Defense in sexual abuse trial of property magnates Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander urges jurors to reject ‘monstrous story’
Brothers were predators masquerading as party boys, New York court hears
Defense in sexual abuse trial of property magnates Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander urges jurors to reject ‘monstrous story’
Three brothers, two of them real estate agents who catered to the jet-set crowd, used a playbook over a 12-year stretch that sometimes involved drugging women and girls before raping them, a prosecutor told a New York jury on Tuesday in an opening statement.






























