US Attorney Scandal - This Time It's Iowa

The DSM Register has an article this morning regarding the indictment against Democratic State Senator Matt McCoy. It turns out that the US Attorney's indictment of McCoy is not supported by the recorded statements that were turned over to the defense. Hmmmm, so we have a US Attorney who likes to indict Democrats, appear at evangelical Christian events, and spread the republican agenda who has a press conference in which he says that they have McCoy on tape violating the law only to later learn that the tapes contain nothing. And I suppose the jurors in the case are going to be asked to believe the informant that the US Attorney used in his entrapment scheme who just happens to be a criminal thug? Let's hope that the magistrate in this case puts an end to this political witch hunt and McCoy can get back to his life without the horror of this hanging over him.

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Lawyers for indicted state Sen. Matt McCoy want more information about how federal prosecutors decided to charge him with attempted extortion.

A grand jury in March found that McCoy, a Democrat who has represented parts of Des Moines' south and west sides since 1996, threatened two former business partners who later gave him roughly $2,000.

Defense attorney F. Montgomery Brown told Magistrate Judge Celeste Bremer on Tuesday that three lawyers have poured over the recorded conversations and "don't see the magic words" that would justify the charge. McCoy's trial is scheduled for July 30. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Brown said Vasquez apparently had his first contact with the FBI on Dec. 5, 2005. But FBI accounts of that interview contain no allegation that would match the Medicaid statement in McCoy's indictment.

AND THE MOST TELLING PART OF THE INTERVIEW IS HERE:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Kahl later declined to comment on what the FBI was investigating on Dec. 7 and why Vasquez recorded conversations if there was no allegation of extortion. "That's just somewhere that I can't go," he said.

THEY OBVIOUSLY CANNOT GO THERE BECAUSE IT IS A POLITICAL WITCH HUNT ... THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A CRIME FOR AN OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR LIKELY TO RUN FOR US CONGRESS AND WIN.