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Cooperation discount leads to buzz about DOJ investigating Hill happenings

By Douglas A. Berman

This item from Politico highlights how a massive criminal justice system that encourages cooperation can get a lot of persons nervous real fast, even on Capitol Hill:The news was buried deep in a Page Two story in Saturday?s Washington Post, but it?s gotten the city?s lawyers chattering.  The Department of Justice, according to a confidential source in the Post article, is investigating whether members of Congress have been improperly using staff and office resources. The Justice Department declined to comment, but that hasn?t diminished the buzz on Capitol Hill. ?Nobody?s heard anything,? said Andrew Herman, a congressional ethics attorney who by Monday morning had already fielded a number of calls from nervous lawyers.  ?There?s just concern that this could become another House banking investigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).