Days before Connecticut Assistant U.S. Attorney Nora Dannehy started her investigation into the 2006 U.S. Attorney firing scandal, a case she oversaw collapsed amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct , the Nieman Watchdog investigative website reported Sunday.
Nora Dannehy (DOJ)
A federal appeals court ruled that the prosecution team, headed up by Dannehy, unlawfully held back evidence in a Connecticut political corruption case, according to Justice Integrity Project Executive Director Andrew Kreig, who is also a Huffington Post commentator. Last week, the Justice Department announced it had finished its investigation into the firing of nine George W. Bush U.S. Attorneys without filing criminal charges in connection with the scandal.
“The ruling didn’t cite Dannehy by name, and although it was publicly reported it apparently never came up in the news coverage of her appointment,” Kreig wrote. “But it now calls into question the integrity of her investigation by raising serious concerns about her credibility — and about whether she was particularly vulnerable to political pressure from within the Justice Department.”
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