Vexed by the Justice Department’s chaotic oversight of federal prosecutions in New Jersey, a judge on Monday threw a government attorney out of a hearing and ordered the three officials in charge of the state’s U.S. Attorney’s office to answer his questions under oath.
U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi lit into prosecutors after another judge ruled last week that the Trump administration’s decision to replace interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba with a trio of officials was another violation of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which requires Senate confirmation.
Of the many complaints this judge leveled, one of them was that the sloppy prosecution didn’t even wait for the FBI to finish it’s investigation before trying to rush a plea agreement.
In the midst of the plea agreement, the FBI found yet more CSAM, that they were unable to charge due to the DOJ’s actions.
I wonder if that was just the defendant’s dumb luck, or if there’s something else going on here.
I’d lean towards the former, but would not be shocked at the latter.
Judge said the plea agreement only covers victim #1, NOT victims #2-#12. The feds can charge for the others, however it doesn’t seem like they want to charge him.
If Habba was handling this, I automatically assume the defendant is connected to Trump somehow; sounds like maybe a coconspirator
It sounds like people with no real experience and who don’t understand how these things proceed tried to score a quick and easy win, but ruined it in the process.