Because the second trial is ongoing, prosecutors cannot comment on the Sexton result, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Citing the need to protect witnesses and maintain "the confidentiality of ongoing investigations," prosecutors requested unusually tight restrictions on pretrial evidence in Lim's case.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, incensed at the government misconduct, took the extraordinary step of ordering a special investigation (still ongoing) into whether prosecutors' actions rose to the level of criminal violations.
She said their investigation is still ongoing and that prosecutors plan to press unspecified charges.
Even in cases that garner national media headlines, the process remains slow: A federal investigation into George Zimmerman is still ongoing, and federal prosecutors seem unlikely to file charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
"Mr. Daqduq's alleged crimes are serious violations of the law of war that were committed against U.S. service members in Iraq in association with ongoing hostilities," the chief prosecutor of the military commissions system, Brig.
"What are the legislators from the House going to say they know personally?" Complicating the impeachment trial is the ongoing investigation of federal prosecutors here.
But Cohen's testimony could become a public spectacle, threatening to further poison the already toxic relationship between the White House and Democrats, and even throw a wrench into special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing Russia investigation, former prosecutors and legal experts said.
Isn't there still an ongoing investigation by a special prosecutor who was appointed last year to look into the removal of the attorneys?
It was certainly a bold choice of words for a lead prosecutor in an ongoing investigation, though his claims appeared to be lent some credence by testimonies from the Austrian bookmaker SkySport365.
