The takedown of Senator Ted Stevens five years ago was a “vicious, comprehensive Alinskyite attack using the legal system” of which the left continues to employ, according to Rachel Alexander, editor of the Intellectual Conservative. She says the left abuses the legal system to beat candidates they cannot beat at the ballot box.
In 2008, partisan Democrat career prosecutors at the DOJ convinced a jury to indict a ham sandwich -er, Stevens for supposedly failing to list on Senate disclosure forms some goods and services he received for improvements made to his home in Girdwood, Alaska. He was billed $150,000 by a contractor for the work in 2002, and he paid it in full. DOJ prosecutors claimed the improvements were really worth $250,000, and that he had improperly failed to disclose the additional $100,000. The prosecutors interviewed the foreman on the job, who stated he believed the total work was only worth $80,000. Incredibly, the prosecutors failed to turn this exculpatory information over to Stevens and his defense attorneys.
The federal judge who decided the case, Emmet G. Sullivan, was appointed to the bench by Bill Clinton, but found the prosecution’s behavior so reprehensible he ultimately threw the case out in early 2009. The New York Times reported that Judge Sullivan, “speaking in a slow and deliberate manner that failed to conceal his anger, said that in 25 years on the bench, he had ‘never seen mishandling and misconduct like what I have seen’ by the Justice Department prosecutors who tried the Stevens case,” repeatedly refusing to turn over documents to the defense. “Again and again, both during and after the trial in this case, the government was caught making false representations and not meeting its discovery obligations,” he said. Stevens’ defense team had this to add about the partisan prosecutors, “They abandoned all decency and sound judgment when they indicted and prosecuted an 84-year old man who served his country in World War II combat, and who served with distinction for 40 years in the U.S. Senate.”
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