Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 17, 2007
Prosecutor Leaving

From the Baseball Primer Newsblog:

USA Kevin Ryan, who had been the lead Balco prosecutor is apparently one of several federal prosecutors that have been pushed out by the Justice Dept. using a provision of the USA Patriot Act.

Except that's not exactly what the article says. While other federal prosecutors are being pushed out, when the article gets around to quoting people who know something about the situation:

But another legal observer said he doubts Ryan is being removed for political reasons.

"I don't see Ryan doing anything that doesn't comport with the ideological line out of Washington,'' said Peter Keane, a Golden Gate University law professor and former dean. He said other prosecutors who reportedly are under pressure to leave have been those who "don't meet the general conservative litmus test.''

"I don't think this was in response to a White House request'' aimed at Ryan, said Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a former prosecutor in the office under one of Ryan's predecessors.

Little said he'd known that Ryan had been thinking of leaving for about six months. He said he didn't know all of Ryan's reasons but that one must have been the need for a more lucrative job to pay the education costs of two college-bound sons.

Anyway, I doubt it will change anything. These prosecutions are usually run by the staff.



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