The late Sen. Ted Stevens’ (R-AK) lawyers, Brendan Sullivan and Ron Cary, issued a statement on his passing that honored his life, offered condolences to his family and, of course, took a few swipes at the Department of Justice for its prosecution of Stevens that was thrown out in wake of evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.Stevens was charged with accepting and not reporting gifts and convicted shortly before he lost reelection in 2008. But after the election, an FBI whistleblower came forward to charge that prosecutors had deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence, the judge charged the prosecutors with contempt and Attorney General Eric Holder ultimately dismissed the charges and refused to refile the case.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=122788