WP: Defense Lawyer Gave Reporter FBI Memo in Corruption Case

[Pirate Smile]

Defense Lawyer Gave Reporter FBI Memo in Corruption Case

By Joe Milicia
Associated Press
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A04

AKRON, Ohio, July 22 -- A defense lawyer Friday acknowledged giving an FBI memo to a newspaper reporter writing about a corruption probe, and a federal judge urged a prosecutor to investigate how two other sealed documents were leaked.

The reporter's article was one of two the Cleveland Plain Dealer had delayed publishing out of concern there would be an investigation into who disclosed the documents. The story, about a federal probe of former Cleveland mayor Michael R. White, was published Thursday after a weekly newspaper wrote about the case.


The same day, U.S. Attorney Gregory A. White asked the judge to find out who leaked the memo and two affidavits filed by FBI agents.

Lawyer Jerome Emoff told U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin that he gave one of the documents to a Plain Dealer reporter. The memo described an FBI interview with Ricardo Teamor, a confidant of the ex-mayor who pleaded guilty in April to bribery.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201709.html

[WhiteTara]

1. very interesting

but my question is Why? Doesn't seem to be helping his client.