The judges suspect him of trying to exchange confidential judicial information about another case involving him with a high-ranking prosecutor, Gilbert Azibert.
The inquiry, led by two investigating judges, concerns an alleged attempt to exchange inside judicial information from a high-ranking prosecutor in return for a possible plum job in Monaco.
Robert J. Masters, a high-ranking prosecutor in Queens who attended law school with Chief Pulaski, said that the memos were a way to "formalize and codify" the informal detective lessons traditionally taught by "the experienced guy at the next desk".
Facing questions about whether a high-ranking prosecutor's actions during a murder investigation and trial constituted misconduct, the Brooklyn district attorney's office agreed on Tuesday to allow a man imprisoned in that case to have his murder conviction vacated and his record cleared with the assurance that he will not be retried.
What I found is a trailer that, before it gets to the actual clips, sets up the movie, and the story of the production, with an ingenious comic twist that stars the director himself — who, it should be remembered, was a former law student and the son of a high-ranking prosecutor.
Several months later, Jan Mann, the office's second-highest-ranking prosecutor, was also revealed to have been commenting anonymously.
LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for the film director Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland awaiting possible extradition to the United States, filed an appeals petition on Thursday revealing the existence of sealed testimony about secret dealings between high-ranking prosecutors and a judge in the director's 33-year-old sex crimes case.
Shokin also hindered the investigation of two men known as the "diamond prosecutors," high-ranking state prosecutors who were arrested on suspicion of corruption; raids on their homes turned up a Kalashnikov, four hundred thousand dollars, and sixty-five diamonds.
He was once among China's highest ranking officials, and if Chinese prosecutors are to be believed, he played footloose with the law for years, engaging in bribery, corruption and abuse of power.
He also refined the demand for an independent prosecutor, saying that neither Sessions not Rosenstein could be involved, and that a high-ranking career prosecutor at the Department of Justice should choose someone.
That a top police lawyer and a high-ranking Bronx prosecutor cannot agree on how to police a vestibule is a subtle sign of just how fraught the issue of police stops has become in recent years.
