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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There’s a face only a mother could love.
Uh, er, thanks for the picture, sort of. Now I can skip supper and stay on my diet. Where is my barf bag?
And even that's a stretch.
Is there any Federal Prosecutor that isn’t tainted, corrupt, or has a checkered past?
Pour concrete over her and use her as a garden gnome.
Hey, KAREN! We the People demand to speak to YOUR manager!
That’s a Dude!!!
She might be the best Trump can do for any legal representation.
Few attorneys chose to ignore the shadowy Anti-Trump lawyers who threaten to ruin or bankrupt any one who dares to represent Donald Trump.
That has to be illegal, but no one has confronted them yet.
Guilty on all counts.
Sounds like there is enough dirt to get here kicked off the case. But this is Trump and normal rules don’t apply.
Uhh .... she’s on the prosecution side.
Oink oink, fail
Let’s hope!
Gilbert, huh? Certainly not the originator of the Erector set, at least not around these precincts....
What do you expect. A corrupt DOJ puts a corrupt Special Council in place who then hires a corrupt prosecutor. Business as usual.
One would be hard pressed to find any democrat prosecutor that didn’t have a checkered past.
Corruption is their game to fame.
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Hmmm. You seemed to have missed something.
The scarf kinda hides the adam’s apple??
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