Breaking News: Obama AG Pick's Habit of Putting Criminals On the Street
Exclusive: Obama AG Pick's Habit of Putting Criminals On the Street by Ryan Lovelace It should go without saying that the U.S. attorney general, as our nation's chief law-enforcement officer, is expected to wield the Justice Department's full powers to fight for those victimized by crime. It should also go without saying that federal prosecutors routinely make deals with criminals to secure convictions for other, larger crimes, or to save themselves time and the taxpayers' money -- and that those criminals' victims sometimes come out the losers in such deals. Yet new evidence suggests that Loretta Lynch, President Obama's pick to take DOJ's reins from Eric Holder, may have gone beyond the accepted norms of prosecutorial conduct in her time in charge of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. Lynch appears to have let self-professed criminals walk free in exchange for their cooperation with her office, watched impassively as they committed further crimes, and intentionally kept the victims of those crimes in the dark -- denying them their chance to seek tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution in direct contravention of federal law. Click here for full story.
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