Posted on 02/19/2008 5:08:52 PM PST by Deek1969
Judge Threatens Contempt in Anthrax Case By HOPE YEN – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday he will hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt of court if she continues refusing to identify sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said reporter Toni Locy defied his order last August that she cooperate with Steven J. Hatfill in his lawsuit against the government. Walton indicated he would impose a fine until she divulged her sources, but that he would take a few more days to decide whether to postpone the penalty as she pursues an appeal.
The judge is also considering whether to find former CBS reporter James Stewart in contempt.
"I will order she provide the sources of information," Walton said during a hearing, as Locy, looked grim and slowly shook her head in disagreement.
"I don't like to have to hold anyone in contempt," the judge added, but when it comes to cases where a person says his reputation was destroyed because of stories published about him, "the media has to be responsible."
Walton indicated that the amount of the fine would be $500 each day for the first week, $1,000 each day the second week and then increased to $5,000 each day the third week. Hatfill's attorneys had asked Walton to initially fine Locy $1,000 a day the first week, with the amount increasing by $1,000 each subsequent week to force compliance.
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My money is on her breaking ~ jail is not nice ~ and this is a civil case, not criminal.
She's going to talk and that's going to result in some serious headrolling at FBI headquarters and the CIA. I doubt Columbia University will concern itself with punishing the leftwingers on their faculty who engineered the coverup.
I am above all of you,bow down to my reporting.
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