Alaska’s federal public defender wants a Justice Department watchdog to review how top prosecutors in the state handled potential conflicts between their lawyers and a US judge who resigned over misconduct findings.
The conflicted prosecutors not quickly revealing the conflicts of interest leaves the US attorney’s office “in a poor position to identify and evaluate the damage from this scandal,” Jamie McGrady, who leads the federal defender’s office in Alaska, said Wednesday in a letter obtained by Bloomberg Law.
McGrady also asked prosecutors to immediately disclose more details about potential conflicts between former US District Judge Joshua Kindred and government ...
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