Boston's Chief Judge's Letter To Mukasey-DO YOUR JOB!

Boston’s Chief Judge: OPR Isn’t Doing Its Job
By: emptywheel Sunday January 6, 2008 8:54 am

The Chief Judge in Boston just sent Michael Mukasey a letter suggesting DOJ's process for investigating and responding to misconduct from government prosecutors isn't working.

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Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf, in an extraordinary letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, skewered the Justice Department's mild and secret discipline of Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn in 2006 for misconduct that Wolf said required him to order the "release from prison of a capo and associate of the Patriarca family of La Cosa Nostra."

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"The Justice Department's performance in the Auerhahn matter raises serious questions about whether judges should continue to rely upon the department to investigate and sanction misconduct by federal prosecutors," wrote Wolf, who last July, after expressing frustration with his punishment, took the unusual step of asking the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to launch disciplinary proceedings against Auerhahn.

Wolf also wrote that "the department's failure to be candid and consistent with the court has become disturbingly common in the District of Massachusetts."



Wolf wrote Mukasey that he hoped the Justice Department "will soon again discharge its duties in a manner that commands the trust of federal judges and the people of the United States."

more at:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/06/bostons-chief-judge-opr-isnt-doing-its-job/#more-1618
and:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/01/05/us_judge_chastises_dept_of_justice/

This is great

Need more of this. Much more.