All charges against the Broadview 6 were dismissed by the head of the Northern District of Illinois after claims of gross misconduct before a grand jury. The attorney involved acknowledged knowing about the misconduct since October and not disclosing it to the court. A later press release insisted there was no investigation into E. Jean Carroll, despite reports alleging otherwise. The case involving protesters outside an ICE facility in suburban Chicago collapsed after admissions of legal misstatements, juror removals, and ex parte communications with jurors. The office then pursued damage control by highlighting prior conduct of a specific prosecutor. A perjury investigation was also reported to be underway into Carroll based on allegedly false deposition testimony from October 2022 tied to her efforts to collect nearly $90 million from the president.
"Last Thursday, the head of the Northern District of Illinois announced that he was dismissing all charges against the "Broadview 6," professing himself to be deeply upset about gross misconduct before the grand jury. Never mind that during that same hearing, he admitted to having known about that misconduct since October and failed to mention it to the court."
"Boutros, a former federal prosecutor who previously led white collar prosecutions at Dechert, admitted that AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg: vouched and misstated the law in her first presentation to the grand jury; removed jurors in the second; and engaged in ex parte communications with jurors in the third. With hand on heart - we assume! - he assured Judge April Perry that no one in his office ever intended to bend the rules."
"Then this Thursday Boutros put out a press release insisting that he is absolutely not investigating E. Jean Carroll, the woman sexually assaulted and then defamed by the president despite reports from every major news outlet in the country that he's doing exactly that."
"But even as Boutros insisted that he's a REAL lawyer, not a common Lindsey Halligan, it emerged that his office is leading a perjury investigation into the 82-year-old advice columnist who's been trying to collect almost $90 million from the president for the past three years. The supposedly false statement took place in a deposition(!) in October of 2022."
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