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Top Trump prosecutor Karen Gilbert has checkered past: ‘Sorry sack of lies’
The New York Post ^ | 06/17/2023 | Joe Levine

Posted on 06/17/2023 1:23:18 PM PDT by thegagline

A top prosecutor in the classified documents case against former President Trump was once cited for unethical behavior in a federal drug case, court records show.

Karen Gilbert, 59, who now has a leading role in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump, was forced to resign as chief of the narcotics section of the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office for her role in secretly taping a defense lawyer in 2009, court papers show.

The case involved Dr. Ali Shaygan, a Florida family medicine physician, who faced 141 counts of illegally dispensing pain medication. In June 2007, James Brendan Downey, a patient of Shaygan, died days after receiving a methadone prescription from Shaygan. *** Gilbert, and her then-colleague Sean Cronin, suspected witness tampering on the part of the defense. And so without approval from the local U.S. Attorney at the time, R. Alexander Acosta, Gilbert, and Cronin authorized a wiretap of Shaygan’s lawyer — which ultimately yielded nothing. *** Shaygan, who was acquitted on all counts, says Gilbert has no business being a federal prosecutor.

“I have no reason to believe that she will behave ethically in any circumstance,” he said. “I do not find it appropriate for her to still be employed by the Department of Justice.” *** Gilbert has also come under fire for a history of political donations to Democratic candidates for federal office, including more than $2,000 to the presidential campaigns of President Biden and former President Obama, according to Federal Election Commission records. ***

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: corrupt; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; florida; jacksmith; karengilbert; prosecutor; trump
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To: thegagline

Typical UGLY ass Communist


21 posted on 06/17/2023 2:58:35 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: thegagline

Unethical behavior is a resume enchancer to communists.


22 posted on 06/17/2023 3:05:12 PM PDT by Bibcon
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To: Reily

Oops! Never mind.


23 posted on 06/17/2023 3:25:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: thegagline

I don’t think that’s even a true biological woman!


24 posted on 06/17/2023 3:35:39 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Salvey

You are correct.


25 posted on 06/17/2023 3:35:55 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: OKC Patriot

Yeah.


26 posted on 06/17/2023 3:36:10 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Free helicopter ride for her, anyone?
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27 posted on 06/17/2023 3:36:43 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: thegagline

The Department Of Shysters


28 posted on 06/17/2023 3:41:07 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: thegagline

That’s just plain FUGLY!


29 posted on 06/17/2023 3:45:44 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: mass55th

Just the one investigating Clinton who fired all of them to hide the fact that he needed to get rid of the one


30 posted on 06/17/2023 4:45:00 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: thegagline

Looks like white Whoopi.


31 posted on 06/17/2023 4:45:17 PM PDT by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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