A spokesman for the Treasury Department, Dan Bledsoe, said Mr. Lawrance considered the hearing unnecessary.
The prosecutors co-ordinating the investigation were led by another woman, Ilda Boccassini, who had argued that the obviousness of the evidence against Mr Berlusconi made a pre-trial hearing unnecessary.
There is a federal rule of criminal procedure that requires law enforcement officials to take a prisoner to a judge for an initial hearing "without unnecessary delay".
"The rush to a hearing is unnecessary, and contrary to the committee discovering the truth," Lisa Banks, Blasey's lawyer, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Interruptions in the court proceedings cause unnecessary confusion during a hearing.
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He might hear other unnecessary or redundant words that you don't catch.
It may be difficult, but also unnecessary, to protect them from hearing about a news event at all.
If every actor were like Mr. Law, signed performances for the hard of hearing would be unnecessary.
