In a court filing on Wednesday, the government announced a change in the prosecutors assigned to a large federal racketeering case against alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang.
The filing identifies Tim Braley, an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of Texas, as a lead counsel on the case. David Karpel, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division’s Gang Unit, remains a lead counsel on the case.
As TPM reported Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Hileman sent an email to defense attorneys involved in the case Tuesday morning, informing them that he was withdrawing from the case.
“He sent the email to every lawyer representing a defendant in the Aryan Brotherhood federal case, and he said — very short email — that he was withdrawing for security reasons,” Houston attorney Katherine Scardino, who is representing on of the defendants in the case, told TPM.
Read Wednesday’s filing:
