By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Baltimore federal prosecutor Stephanie A. Gallagher has been named a U.S. District Magistrate Judge in Baltimore. Gallagher, 38, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Baltimore office for seven years before forming the firm Levin & Gallagher in Baltimore. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office she investigated and prosecuted a…
By Stephanie Gallagher Fraud With Peril Blog Everyone knows that “money talks.” The biggest problem for former Congressman William J. Jefferson, however, may be that witnesses talk, even if money doesn’t. The case against Congressman Jefferson is infamous because of $90,000 in cash found in his freezer in 2005. When that money was found, the…
By Stephanie Gallagher Fraud With Peril Blog The Department of Justice has had several high-profile incidents in the past few weeks calling into question the integrity of its prosecutors – specifically the aftermath of the Ted Stevens trial, during which prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence, and the Shaygan trial in Miami, during which prosecutors…
