OPR Reaches Out to Siegelman’s Camp for Assistance in InvestigationThe Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility reached out for the first time to the Don Siegelman camp on Monday, asking in a letter to Siegelman’s attorney for “information and documents that would assist” them in investigation the allegations that the “selective and politically motivated” prosecution of the former Alabama governor.
Vince Kilborn, Siegelman’s attorney, said that he would take the OPRs request for assistance as an opportunity to focus on the reasons behind U.S. Attorney Leura Canary’s recusal of herself from the case.
From the AP:
[Kilborn] wants a Justice Department review of the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman to focus partly on the reasons a federal prosecutor in Montgomery stepped aside from the case.
. . .Kilborn said the office, an arm of the Justice Department, should seek documents regarding a decision by U.S. Attorney Leura Canary — a GOP appointee — to recuse herself from the prosecution of Siegelman, a Democrat. Canary’s husband, William, leads the Business Council of Alabama and has been a Republican political consultant.
A copy of the OPR’s letter to Kilborn is here.
