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G. Paul Howes, Former Prosecutor, Bribed Witnesses

It's happening.  The Ted Stevens case will mark a historical turning point on the discipline of prosecutors.  I have been following these issues for almost a decade.  There has been more attention on prosecutorial misconduct over the past 12 months than in the past decade.  People who were in denial about prosecutorial misconduct, thanks to the unethical prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case, are starting to pay attention.  G. Paul Howes, a former prosecutor who now works at Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, was actually disciplined for prosecutorial misconduct.  Mike Scarcella - the man to read at the Legal Times - reports:A former federal prosecutor in Washington was dishonest, interfered with the administration of justice and committed a crime when he doled out thousands of dollars in federal witness money to jailed informants and to individuals who were not in fact witnesses, according to a professional responsibility hearing committee in the District of Columbia...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).