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Stevens prosecutors admit another error

Richard Mauer - Anchorage Daily News

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February 06, 2009 04:50 AM

Federal prosecutors have found a new reason to apologize over misleading information they've provided to the judge in former Sen. Ted Stevens' trial, and this time Stevens' lawyers are saying the government should be held in contempt.

In a letter to the judge dated Jan. 30 and made public Thursday, William Welch, head of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section, said he erred when he said in January that government employees cited in an FBI agent's complaint alleging improprieties by government officials "want their story to be made public."

In fact, he wrote, not all of them gave their consent to having their names released Jan. 14 in a publicly filed copy of the eight-page complaint, though he didn't identify which ones.

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