A California judge on Monday dropped the bulk of charges against a prominent Democratic attorney accused of illegally reimbursing employees for contributions to John Edwards’s 2004 presidential campaign. Read the Los Angeles Times story here. Read the National Law Journal story here.
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“The charges were dismissed because the U.S. attorney overreached in an attempt to use the law far more broadly than its terms allow,” Pierce O’Donnell’s attorney, George Terwilliger, said in a prepared statement, the LA Times reported.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge S. James Otero was a setback to U.S. Attorney Tom O’Brien in LA. The lawyer’s defense team had questioned whether Bush-appointed O’Brien targeted O’Donnell for his representation of Hurricane Katrina victims in a lawsuit against the U.S., and because he’d criticized Bush’s civil rights policies after the 9/11 attacks.
A spokesman for O’Brien said the office was reviewing the ruling and deciding whether to appeal.
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