Posted on 06/12/2023 10:54:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
AJustice Department prosecutor who helped secure last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was publicly reprimanded by a judge in 2009 for “gross negligence” in connection with secretly taping a defense lawyer and an investigator, an agency source has confirmed to Just The News.
The prosecutor, Karen Gilbert, is now serving as a deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who on Thursday issued the 37-count indictment of Trump.
In the 2009 case, Gilbert was head of the U.S. Attorney's Office's narcotics division in Miami and was attempting to prosecute Dr. Ali Shaygan for allegedly prescribing medications illegally, court records show.
Gilbert and colleague in the case Sean Cronin launched a witness tampering investigation and got two witnesses to record conversations between Shaygan's defense lawyer and the investigator, the records show.
However, according to a stinging ruling by U.S. District Judge Alan Gold, the pair failed to get authorization to tape the conversations and did not inform the defense team that the witnesses were "cooperating with the government," thereby violating discovery obligations.
In addition, Gilbert didn't inform her bosses that the duo had launched the investigation in violation of policy. When asked later about the matter in the sanctions hearing, she testified under oath that “she thought she had.”
The judge determined Gilbert was "grossly negligent in her treatment" of the "significant and unique witness tampering investigation against defense counsel" and said there was no basis to have even started the probe.
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bttt
bfl
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE DIRTY, CORRUPT EVIL FREAKS!
Smith is America’s own Rasputin.
REPRIMANDED?????
Should be fired & lose law license
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Why wasn’t she arrested and jailed for years and her law license removed?
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