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[BigSlick]

This thread should be used to discuss the candidacies of Tim Petumenos and Karen Loeffler for the position of US Attorney for Alaska.

I propose we mount a campaign to encourage PE Obama and his appointee to US Attorney General,  Eric Holder, to appoint Karen Loeffler.

Loeefler is the superior candidate based on her history of prosecuting corrupt officials such as "Pastor" Jim Hayes, the former mayor of Fairbanks who is now serving 5 years for stealing from Federal funds approved for youth programs in order to build a new church for his flock and install a plasma TV in his house.

Petumenos is, of course, the lackey that McCain/Palin inserted into TrooperGate to run the Personnel Board's "investigation" that basically gave a pass to Sarah Palin and cronies and has stymied their prosecutions for things such as witness tampering.

Its a clear choice to me.

 

[Jaime from Wasilla]

Great idea Slick!  I'll send some letters out for this one.

[BigSlick]

Jaime, here's some ammunition.

Karen Loefler is an effective prosecutor of Abuse of Power issues as proven by the documents found at the links below:

http://anchorage.fbi.gov/doj/pressrel/2008/publiccorruption021408.pdf

http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/usaopress/2008/txdv08_Hayes_Jim_and_Chris_080502.pdf

I am sure she has done a lot more than this and I'm crawling and trawling for more info on her good work right now.

[the problem child]

Jaime, here's some ammunition.

Karen Loefler is an effective prosecutor of Abuse of Power issues as proven by the documents found at the links below:

http://anchorage.fbi.gov/doj/pressrel/2008/publiccorruption021408.pdf

http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/usaopress/2008/txdv08_Hayes_Jim_and_Chris_080502.pdf

I am sure she has done a lot more than this and I'm crawling and trawling for more info on her good work right now.

Yes, I would like to hear about more than a single case before jumping on her bandwagon...
But this one hits all my sweet spots, I gotta say!

[BigSlick]

There's more.  She was involved in actions against BP for violations of the Clean Water Act.

This may be why SP doesn't like her, TP works for BP so SP might be PO'd?

http://dwb.adn.com/static/includes/prudhoe/102507_BPpleaagreement.pdf

[BigSlick]

ADN is already on this with an Ear Wig report...

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/alaska_ear/story/642019.html

LINE-UP ... Earwigs out on federal parole say Karen Loeffler and Tim Petumenos are the leading contenders to replace our nice but largely invisible U.S. Attorney Nelson Cohen, who was imported into the Alaska job from Pennsylvania over Ted Stevens' objections.

Karen has been acting in the job for months during a prolonged Cohen absence. Tim, as Earwigs will remember, was the special counsel for the state Personnel Board in the Troopergate affair.

Ear expects there are plenty of other candidates. It's a plum job for a lawyer. The appointment will be made by President Obama and has to be approved by the U.S. Senate.

[BigSlick]

She's busy, this was released today!

http://www.sitnews.us/0109news/010609/010609_craig_resident.html

CRAIG RESIDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO WILDLIFE VIOLATIONS


 

January 06, 2009
Tuesday


Acting United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Christopher R. Rowland, resident of Craig, Alaska, pleaded guilty in federal court in Anchorage in December to violations of the Lacey Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Rowland, age 41, pleaded guilty to four counts before Chief United States District Court Judge John W. Sedwick. In connection with the guilty plea, Special Assistant United States Attorney John C. Reardon advised the court that Rowland was involved in the illegal taking, transportation and sale of sea otters.

[BigSlick]

Here's some dirt on the BP prosecution, apparently Karen got ordered by higher-up Assistant US AG Ron Tenpas (http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/) to accept a plea deal. Note that WSJ was involved too.

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/scottwest111508.htm

“The agreement I had with Jim Carlton was that the Wall Street Journal was going to publish an article about this case on Monday, November 3, the day before the election,” West told Corporate Crime Reporter last week. “I had also spoken with KING5 News, the NBC affiliate here in Seattle. They had me on camera. But I had them under embargo until Monday morning. Then late on Sunday, I was told that the Wall Street Journal editors decided not to go with the story, that they were going to push it off. The Wall Street Journal reneged its promise to me. But KING5 ran it.”

Why did Wall Street Journal not run the story?

“I don’t know,” West said. “I have my suspicions. I understand that the Justice Department was putting a lot of pressure on the Journal. And the Wall Street Journal attorneys were concerned.”

During a phone interview with Corporate Crime Reporter last week, West again reiterated that he was told by Karen Loeffler, the lead criminal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Alaska, that the prosecutors in Alaska were “just following orders” from Washington to shut down the investigation into BP and to accept the plea to a misdemeanor.

“I hate dragging Karen Loeffler into this,” West said. “She is a career prosecutor. A very decent person. Nevertheless, this occurred. Karen took me aside. We were in the hallway at the U.S. Attorney’s office. And she directed me into an office off the hallway and she shut the door. And she said – look, I’m sympathetic to how you are feeling. And she said – you need to know, the decision was made by Ron Tenpas back at Main Justice. And we here are just following orders. I think she said this to try to calm me down. I had no reason to disbelieve Karen. When she told me it was Ron Tenpas, I didn’t ask how she knew it was Ron Tenpas. But that’s what the woman told me.”

Tenpas is the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at Main Justice.

Regime change in Washington might be good for Karen.

[BigSlick]

Apparently Karen doesn't like mortgage fraud.

http://www.mortgagefraudblog.com/images/uploads/alaska.pdf

[BigSlick]

Has anybody heard anything more on this, like why Cohen is leaving the position?

[InJuneau]

As I recall, it was only supposed to be a temporary appointment.  He prob. wants to go back home to PA or wherever it was he is from.