FBI Agent Gets Limited Immunity in Katrina Leung Case
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Wed Apr 30, 2003 at 11:43:10 PM EST
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Posted on Wed Apr 30, 2003 at 11:43:10 PM EST
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James Smith, the FBI agent who had a long term romantic affair with Katrina Leung while he was her "handler" is being afforded limited immunity from proseuction. First, he gets bond and she doesn't. Now he gets limited immunity. We think this supports Leung's lawyers' contention that Smith is receiving preferential treatment.
Ms. Leung's lawyers, Janet Levine and John Vandevelde, said prosecutors' willingness to negotiate a deal demonstrated that they were treating Ms. Leung "more severely" than the retired agent. "Katrina had a few pages of outdated, useless papers that Smith brought to her house in the first place, and she voluntarily let the F.B.I. have them without asking for immunity," the lawyers said in a statement. "He was released the day of his arrest by agreement with the government. She is in jail because the government fought her release. There seems to be a double standard being used."
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