FEAR & LOATHING AT THE DOJ , CONT’D

The Department of Justice declines to answer to Howard or me, but it might answer to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Utah Senator Mike Lee. Senators Grassley and Lee have now sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seeking an update on the Justice Department’s inquiry into professional misconduct committed by prosecutors and higher-ups who brought the charges against Howard and have since sought to prevent him from being heard.

In the letter Senators Grassley and Lee note that “reports suggest a pattern of threatened and actual retribution against defendants and witnesses borne out of the Department’s disappointment with the outcome of a particular case. This not only casts doubt on the Department’s ability to accept the results of judicial proceedings in a professional manner befitting the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency, but it significantly undermines our confidence in its commitment to hold government attorneys accountable for questionable actions that may have occurred in the course of this case or other cases.” The letter poses seven questions and asks for response by April 5, 2018. I’m guessing the department will not decline to respond.

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Who polices America’s prosecutors? And when they set their sights on an innocent CEO, can he survive a 5-year, $25 million legal labyrinth to save the company he built, and himself from prison? Howard Root started Vascular Solutions with little more than a dream and an idea for a single medical device. Fifteen years later, his Minnesota company had created over 500 American jobs and developed more than 50 new medical devices that saved and improved lives. But in 2011, the federal government threatened to destroy his company and put Howard behind bars for years. Why? Federal prosecutors had been sold a bill of goods – a tall tale peddled by a money-hungry ex-employee out for revenge. All over one device. A device that never harmed a single patient and made up less than 1% of the company s sales. The investigation revealed the charges to be baseless, but the scalp-hunting prosecutors didn’t back off. Instead they dug in – threatening witnesses, misleading grand juries, and strategically leaking secret documents. Whatever it took to pressure a headline-grabbing settlement. Howard Root stood up to the shakedown. Five years, 121 attorneys and $25 million in legal fees later, his life’s work and freedom rested in the hands of 12 strangers in a San Antonio jury room. Would Howard and his company be vindicated by the verdict, or had he made the biggest mistake of his life by challenging the federal government? Cardiac Arrest is the eye-opening true story of life on the Feds’ hit-list, told from the desk of a CEO who decided to fight back. Follow Howard from the boardroom to the courtroom, as he tells the inside story of the case that sparked outrage in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and triggered a congressional investigation.

Bad part of this is that if he gets his 25mil back WE will end up giving it to him.

It should come from the pensions and savings of the over zealous prosecutors.

If they used the same zest and zeal in going after REAL criminals, we would be in a better spot.

I ‘love’ it when WE get to pay to prosecute, defend, and eventually jail criminals.

I am sure when the ‘founding dads’ said everyone should be given representation in court they didn’t mean ‘Joe six-pack’ should get to pay the bills.

Who polices America’s prosecutors? And when they set their sights on an innocent CEO, can he survive a 5-year, $25 million legal labyrinth to save the company he built, and himself from prison?

Ask the Enron executives who did not commit crimes, and eventually had all charges dropped - after they had been drained of every penny defending themselves. Ask the businessmen targeted by that closet homo ba$tard Andrew Weissmann, now working for Mueller, who had innocent men thrown into solitary confinement if they would not cooperate with his lies.

“Ask the Enron executives who did not commit crimes, and eventually had all charges dropped - after they had been drained of every penny defending themselves.”

Enron execs Jeffrey Skilling, Ken Lay, Andrew Fastow, Lea Weingarten were all charged and convicted IIRC. Don’t know who it might be that you have in mind who had charges against them dropped.

You may be thinking of Enron’s accounting firm Arthur Anderson which had its conviction overturned by SCOTUS- but that was due to errors made by the judge when he instructed the jury. I don’t think Arthur Anderson even disputed that they had committed spoliation when they learned that Enron was being prosecuted.

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