SEPT 30 20091. Siegelman Prosecutors Used Threats Against Witnesses
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1. Siegelman Prosecutors Used Threats
Against Witnesses
by Roger Shuler for Legal Schnauzer
....Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen P. Feaga was lead prosecutor on
the case, with close assistance from fellow AUSA J.B. Perrine and
acting U.S. Attorney Louis Franklin. Grimes describes Feaga in almost
Napoleonic terms.
- "Mr. Feaga would frequently comment, 'Gentleman, we are
making history here,'" Grimes writes. "Unfortunately, the lines
between fact and fiction became hopelessly blurred as a result
of these tactics."
....Questionable tactics also were used against Scrushy and his
attorneys. Writes Grimes:
- Before trial, I heard Mr. Feaga, AUSA Perrine and Mr. Franklin
openly discuss and laugh about a plan to obtain proffer
testimony from defendant Richard Scrushy, seeking a plea
agreement without advising his attorneys that their client had
already been named in a sealed indictment. Richard Pilger from
Public Integrity and Joseph Fitzpatrick from the State AG's
Office were more hesitant to engage in this particular conduct
but even more hesitant to challenge the authority of Mr. Feaga."
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| photo: Huffington Post Prosecutor Steven Feaga United States Attorney's Office, "Gentlemen, we are making history here." |