Grand Jury To Hear From Special Counsel Staff

Source: Congress Daily

Tue. May 13, 2008


A grand jury investigating possible obstruction of justice and perjury charges against Special Counsel Scott Bloch will hear testimony today from three agency employees, according to sources familiar with the case.

The testimony follows raids on Bloch's office and home last week by FBI and other agents. Investigators appear mostly focused on whether Bloch erased from his office computer information sought by the Office of Personnel Management's Inspector General's office in its nearly three-year investigation into whether Bloch retaliated against agency employees who opposed his policies at the Office of Special Counsel, a small, independent agency that enforces federal workplace laws.

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Today's witnesses include two OSC IT workers, Wing Leung and Fai Chan, who could help corroborate Bloch's claims. Also scheduled to testify before the grand jury is Jim Byrne, who oversees an OSC team investigating whether briefings given by White House officials to political appointees at federal agencies led to violations of laws against using federal resources for partisan politics.



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