TED STEVENS
In 2008, Alaska senator Ted Stevens was accused of accepting high-value gifts, which also included a Land Rover and home renovations, from a certain oil company and completely failing to mention those gifts. However, he soon issued a statement claiming that he was completely innocent of such charges and that he intended to prove that.
Stevens was eventually convicted on all charges, but that didn’t mark the end of the story. As part of the evidence against them, a testimony from VECO Corporation executive Bill Allen was added, and it wasn’t until 2009 that they decided to proceed with an investigation into the trial.
They discovered that the prosecution allowed Allen to give testimony on the stand that had nothing to do with other versions of the story. Moreover, they have overlooked and withheld other pieces of evidence in the case.
The case was eventually dismissed in 2009, but by 2012, fresh pieces of information were added to a report that suspended the prosecutors without pay: one was suspended for 40 days and another for 15 days (the third one had already died by suicide). As the New York Times showed, the official ruling was that the oversights were caused by “poor judgment” rather than malicious misconduct.
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You forgot John Rowland, Governor of CT