The I.G. report did not conclude that anyone intentionally impeded the investigation.
"What was done here was to knowingly and intentionally impede the opportunity for African Americans and Latinos to elect candidates of their choice," Allan Lichtman, a social scientist at American University testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs, said in court this week.
He was found guilty of impeding a federal investigation in 2003 when he provided intentionally evasive, false or misleading statements during the grand jury testimony he gave in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case.
Instead, Bonds was convicted only of impeding a federal investigation in 2003 when he gave intentionally evasive, false or misleading statements to a grand jury investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs by elite athletes.
After a bad drive into the rough, Woods took a 9-iron from 173 yards, with a tree impeding his back swing, and played the only shot he had, intentionally hooking the ball from right to left onto the green.
You're impeding my investigation.
Roadblocks across the country were impeding commerce.
This "is actually impeding science," he said.
Alonso is under investigation for impeding Gutierrez.
Impeding traffic by driving too slowly.
