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More detail on the US Pardon Attorney scandal

By Douglas A. Berman

This new AP story, headlined "Pardon Attorney Moved After Racism Claim," provides more details on the ugliness in the Office of the US Pardon Attorney.  Here are excerpts:The Justice Department attorney responsible for recommending presidential pardons has been transferred out of his office following accusations of mismanagement and racism. Roger Adams, who served as the government's pardon attorney for over a decade, told internal Justice Department investigators he probably has "some faults, but racial prejudice is not one of them."  But the department's inspector general concluded otherwise, finding that Adams acted improperly in describing a drug convict applying for a pardon as "about as honest as you could expect for a Nigerian...continue to full post

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