Separate Trial, Transfer of Venue Sought By Foggo “Lawyers for former CIA official Kyle ‘Dusty’ Foggo, who is charged in a corruption case spun from the Randy âDukeâ Cunningham bribery scandal, have asked a judge to move his trial to Washington, D.C., and to allow him to be tried separately from fellow defendant Brent Wilkes. In the request for a transfer, filed in federal court this week, lawyers reasoned that the case is centered mostly in the district that includes Washington, D.C., with most of the alleged crimes occurring there.” (San Diego Union-Tribune)Interior Department Official Resigns “An Interior Department official who was recently rebuked for altering scientific conclusions to reduce protections for endangered species and providing internal documents to lobbyists resigned Monday, officials said. Julie A. MacDonald, a deputy assistant secretary who oversaw the Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species program, also faced conflict-of-interest questions in a report issued by the Interior Department’s inspector general in March.” (LA Times)
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