By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska, the Frontier State, is spreading its wings. Come next month, it will open a new office in Juneau, the state capital, the Juneau Empire reports. Former Juneau Assistant District Attorney Jack Schmidt, 38, was recently hired to work in that office, which will be housed…
It’s important for the Justice Department to clear this all up. A policy of transparency and honesty can only make the system stronger. Ex-lawmaker Pete Kott By The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Federal prosecutors said they have complied with a court order handing over trial evidence to two former Alaska lawmakers convicted on corruption…
Strike that off the list of reasons Sarah Palin may have resigned… By Josh Meyer Los Angeles Times A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation: a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com columnist The greater majority of Americans long assumed that the criminal court system worked just fine. With criminal defendants afforded substantive Constitutional rights, many people assumed the nation’s prison held no innocent men or women. This blithe assumption was upset in recent times by the use of DNA technology in post-conviction…
The Justice Department should be applauded for such action. No action would send a signal that this isn’t a big deal — and it is. By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Justice Department leaders quietly transferred two career prosecutors under fire for their work in Alaska corruption cases out of the department’s…
