BREAKING: Terror Prosecutor Quits Justice Department

[johnfunk]

Press release just issued by the National Whistleblower Center:

Washington, D.C., May 16, 2005 -- Richard G. Convertino, a 15-year veteran prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice, resigned from his government job today and will immediately take on the defense of a Michigan State Trooper who has been charged with 2nd Degree murder in the April 14th fatal shooting of an assailant.

Mr. Convertino's voluntary resignation was in protest to the government misconduct he reported in a major terrorism prosecution and the failure of the Department of Justice to enforce his rights under the Privacy Act.

Mr. Convertino, who has been battling with the Justice Department for almost 2 years, says he has been waiting for the right time to leave the Department. ''I know what it is like to be falsely accused of having motives I do not possess. The injustice of charging this Trooper for murder, in what is clearly a self-defense shooting, has given me the right reason to leave.''

�The DOJ had not requested the resignation and his decision to leave the agency was not part of any settlement or negotiated deal. Instead, by resigning from the DOJ, Mr. Convertino will immediately open a private law practice in order to aggressively defend other victims of government abuse.

I guarantee that this is news you won't see on Conservative News Numbnutz , FAUX or MSGOP.

[central scrutinizer]

1. sounds like they are already fitting him for his tinfoil hat

they will discredit him as a loon

[CBGLuthier]

2. Here is more on the trooper

http://www.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_3763624,00.html


The Michigan State Police have said that after receiving a 911 call that brought them to the scene, Williams approached the trooper in an aggressive manner, and the trooper fired.

Family member say Williams, commonly known as Mr. Magoo because of the thick glasses he always wore, was harmless, and while he may have been intoxicated, he did not pose a threat.

[TacticalPeek]

3. Link?

To the press release?

Thanks.

[newscott]

4. Shades of Bill Weld?

[Syrinx]

5. Prosecutor in Detroit Terror Case Quits

DETROIT (AP) -- The chief federal prosecutor in a Detroit terrorism
case that fell apart because of prosecutorial misconduct resigned on
Monday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino, a 15-year veteran of the
U.S. Justice Department, is under investigation by the department over
his handling of the case. The department is also investigating his
handling of two 1990s drug cases.

Convertino said in a statement that he had been looking for the right
time to leave and that the opportunity to defend Jay Morningstar, a
Michigan state trooper charged with murdering a homeless man, provided
''the right reason.''

''I know what it is like to be falsely accused of having motives I do
not possess,'' he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terror-Trial-Prosecutor.html