"We do not have sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt," the prosecution memo states.
Sources familiar with the investigation say that he sent a prosecution memo to DC two months ago asking for authority to indict a public figure (Spitzer).
A prosecution memo at the time stated that there was no case against Williams, but the judge, who, in his ruling, decried "the cynicism and hypocrisy of corrupt public officials," set it aside; Williams was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
Sandusky "used G3 as a means to replace the vast income he lost from the collapse of his real estate business," the prosecution memo continued.
David L. Lewis, Mr. Leibell's lawyer, said in his written response to the prosecution's memo that there was nothing improper in the construction of the house and dismissed the assertion that "the contractor gave Mr. Leibell too good a deal".
"Kwame Kilpatrick was entrusted by the citizens of Detroit to guide their city through one of its most challenging periods," the prosecution's memo read.
Mr. Muller also sought to raise new questions about a crucial prosecution document, a memo written by Sir Anthony Tennant, the former chairman of Christie's who was charged with Mr. Taubman but is home in London and not standing trial.
The prosecution's 50-page memo, submitted by Assistant United States Attorneys Perry A. Carbone and Jason P. W. Halperin, said the contractors who built the house were among a favored group who received "multiple lucrative contracts" from a nonprofit organization to build housing for senior citizens.
Klaidman stresses that, throughout discussions of possible prosecutions regarding the torture memos, Obama "has been careful to say that the final decision is the attorney general's to make," which is as it should be, but it certainly made Holder's independent decision-making harder when the White House was obviously anxious not to provide Republican enemies with an opportunity to attack.
Some intelligence officials objected when the Justice Department sought to deport him in 1983, but the O.S.I. considered the deportation of someone of Rudolph's prominence as an affirmation of "the depth of the government's commitment to the Nazi prosecution program," according to internal memos.
