Feds Investigate Whether Other Feds Encouraged Perjury
Five people are serving life sentences for causing an explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters in 1988. Questions are surfacing about the conduct (or misconduct) of a federal investigator who may have pressured witnesses to lie in order to develop what was nonetheless a weak case against the five defendants.
Five who testified in the case admit they lied to the federal grand jury that indicted the defendants or later at their trial. The other witnesses said they refused to change their stories.
Rep. Emanual Cleaver and a federal judge called for an investigation.
“I think this is something the Justice Department really ought to look into,” Senior U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright said recently. Wright did not preside over the 1997 trial of the five defendants. But he excoriated federal authorities when they used his courtroom to try to retaliate against an uncooperative witness.
The U.S. Attorney's office will comply with that request (really, does it have a choice?). [more ...]
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