The other charges stem from accusations that Mr. Kilpatrick shoved one prosecutor's investigator into another in July as they were trying to serve a friend of the mayor with a subpoena in the perjury case.
However, in both cases, they only saw the "To," "From," and "CC" lines, and the one prosecutor saw the opening salutation of the email (it was "team," or some similar word) and saw NOTHING ELSE.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have extradited several defendants from Trinidad in gang and murder cases in recent years, and one prosecutor in the Kennedy case, Jeffrey H. Knox, was involved in some of those proceedings.
One prosecutor saw the email when reviewing results generated from the first search.
One prosecutor, Lt. Cmdr.
There is truly no substitute for the critical eye of one prosecutor evaluating the case of another prosecutor.
But what about the gear change needed to move from lifelong defence counsel to number-one prosecutor?
The email, which had been sent in December 2004, was from one of the prosecutors handling Mr. Quezada's post-conviction motion, Marie-Claude Wrenn.
But the investigation into the accounting book, including the entries mentioning Mr. Manafort, is still open, and recently shifted from one branch of the prosecutor's office to another, Serhiy Gorbatyuk, the prosecutor in charge of the case, said in an interview.
Finally, the concerns about Justice Department action should be most pronounced when there is a risk the prosecution could seem politically motivated; if a prosecutor from one party could appear to be trying to take down a politician from the other.
