Earlier this week, Judge Emmet Sullivan formally dropped the charges against former Alaska senator Ted Stevens, thanks to prosecutorial misconduct. And Sullivan also announced that he’s appointed a special prosecutor of his own to investigate contempt charges against the six Justice Department lawyers whose string of missteps — the most serious of which involved withholding key evidence — doomed the case. That misconduct is also the subject of an internal DOJ probe.
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