Posted on 06/29/2008 11:58:28 AM PDT by Libloather
Judge seals files on gov interview
BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
nkorecki@suntimes.com
June 28, 2008
A day after it was made public, a federal judge on Friday sealed a court filing that revealed that Gov. Blagojevich had been interviewed by federal agents.
According to the document, Blagojevich denied having conversations described in court by two key prosecution witnesses in the corruption trial of Tony Rezko, a former Blagojevich adviser and fund-raiser. The witnesses testified that the governor made statements tying state business to financial support for his campaign.
U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve ordered the document sealed again, without explanation. She acted on her own. No one requested that the document be sealed.
It might have been made public in error. The filing, authored by Rezko's lawyers, also contained a brief reference to the private life of witness Stuart Levine. St. Eve previously ruled that details involving Levine's "secret life" should not be made public. Levine testified he took part in multiple drug binges with other men at area hotels, including Lincolnwood's Purple Hotel.
Rezko, 52, was convicted earlier this month of widespread corruption and fraud involving state deals.
This is sweet! Isn't there some clown running around telling anybody that will listen to him that he had exactly this type of "incident" with Obama? The Obama camp poo-pahs the whole thing but these are the same people that Obama hung with until he became the chosen one.
Smoke, fire-that kinda stuff!
Records should never be sealed except in the event of a VERIFIABLE need for national security or to protect a minor.
I’d like to see it as hard to classify ANY document as it is to get a building permit, maybe limit it to 10 or 20 a year. And require the SOCTUS to declare any record sealed, again with a 10 or 20 year limit.
Interesting that Judge St. Eve would do this, also the prosecutors had a chance to spill more of the beans in court about Obama-Rezco and chose not to.
Drug tests for NObama now!!!
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