Judge ruled DoJ engaged in āprofound investigative misstepsā on way to indicting the former FBI director
Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick ruled on Monday that the justice department engaged in a ādisturbing pattern of profound investigative misstepsā on its way to indicting Comey. The federal judge directed prosecutors to produce to defense lawyers all grand jury materials from the case.
Fitzpatrick wrote that problems include āfundamental misstatements of the lawā by a prosecutor to a grand jury that indicted Comey in September, the use of potentially privileged communications in the investigation and unexplained irregularities in the transcript of the grand jury proceedings.
āThe Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted,ā Fitzpatrick wrote, adding: āHowever, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.ā
That should be grounds for discipline, but IME, you have to piss off a disciplinary board personally to ever see consequences for attorney misconduct.
Yes, but if Rudy Giulianiās disbarment is evidence of anything, brazenly defrauding the legal system for political purposes can have that effect. Much like Comeyās claim being one that rarely succeeds, I think weāre in the realm of possibility where rare things may well happen
Yeah Richard Lebowitz is a good example of how many second chances are extended for lawyers, itās shocking. Leonard French has a series of all of the complaints against him.