Alaska US Attorney Defends Office From Retaliation Claims

Alaska’s US attorney is strongly defending her office against claims that its leaders retaliated against a former employee who reported sexual misconduct against a federal judge.

S. Lane Tucker, the US attorney for the District of Alaska, said in a statement sent to Bloomberg Law on Thursday that a recently announced settlement between the Justice Department and a former prosecutor “expressly denies” any wrongdoing by her office’s management. The former prosecutor, who had clerked for US District Judge Joshua Kindred prior to going to work in the US attorney’s office, alleged she was denied a permanent job because she reported ...