Posted on 02/20/2020 5:58:59 PM PST by Enlightened1
A top Department of Justice prosecutor who authored the letter informing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s legal team that it would not file criminal charges against McCabe for lying to federal investigators, was the latest prosecutor added to DOJ’s prosecution against Roger Stone.
J.P. Cooney, the head of Fraud & Public Corruption, became part of the new prosecution team against Stone after the former prosecutors resigned in protest.
Cooney, head of the DOJ’s Fraud and Public Corruption, and John Crabb, who also handles public corruption cases for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., replaced the previous prosecution team last week after they resigned in protest against Attorney General William Barr’s decision to withdraw the recommendation by prosecutors to sentence Stone to seven to nine years in prison. At the hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months, far less than the prosecution recommended.
Cooney was charged with supervising the investigation into McCabe and wrote in a letter to McCabe’s attorney’s that “we write to inform you that after careful consideration, the government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client, Andrew G. McCabe, arising from the referral by the Office of the Inspector General to our Office of conduct describes in the OIG’s April 13, 2018, report entitled ‘A Report of Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.”
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You & I are in total agreement. Sometimes you throw a pass just to highlight “pass interference”.
We have an adversarial legal system. Prosecutors are supposed to be biased towards conviction and defense attorneys are supposed to be biased towards acquittal. Judges are to be fair.
Political bias won't make a prosecutor try harder to get a conviction. It might affect the decision to investigate or charge someone in the first place but that's not the prosecutor's call.
Do you really believe that the Dem hacks in the DOJ won’t try harder to get a visible Republican scalp than going after a Dem? Oh wait, Dem cases are simply dropped by the Dem hacks in the DOJ. No worries.
Meanwhile Joe wants to know when his pudding is coming.
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