New-13 Page Doc-To House Judiciary Sheds New Light On How/Why DOJ Aggressively Targeted Carol Lam

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The San Diego Union Tribune reports on a 13 page document former San Diego US attorney Carol Lam has given to the House Judiciary committee:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070604-9999-1m4letter.html

The document contains Lam's responses to questions from the committee, and it sheds some new light on just how aggressively the Justice Department shoved her out the door.

A few days after learning last December that she was to submit her resignation effective Jan. 31, Lam asked Michael Battle, then the head of the U.S. attorney executive office, for extra time to ensure "an orderly transition" especially regarding pending investigations and several significant cases that were set to begin trial in the next few months," Lam wrote in her answers.

At the time, Lam was investigating corruption cases stemming from her successful prosecution of former Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion charges after admitting to taking more than $2.4 million in bribes. Cunningham was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison. Besides Lam, four other prosecutors were presiding over corruption investigations when they were dismissed.

"He insisted that I had to depart in a matter of weeks, not months, and that these instructions were 'coming from the very highest level of the government,'" Lam wrote.


more at:
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/006215.html

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