FC: "Assassination Politics" federal prosecutor assassinated

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[The below item is forwarded, apparently from Techlaw Journal. As far as I 
know, Wales was not involved in either the Jim Bell I or II trials. 
(http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics) The Carl Johnson (Carl 
apparently is now out of prison and he or a double is merrily posting on 
cypherpunks) prosecution had little to do with Bell's Assassination 
Politics essay, though you wouldn't know it from what prosecutors were 
telling the media. Still, it this an eerie coincidence. --Declan]

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Seattle Prosecutor Assassinated

10/12. Thomas Wales, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of
Washington in Seattle, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted on
Thursday night, October 11. He was responsible for prosecuting major
business crimes and bank frauds. He was also the Executive Assistant U.S.
Attorney to former U.S. Attorney Katrina Pflaumer at the time of the
"Assassination Politics" prosecutions. The USAO obtained a conviction of
Carl Johnson for sending threatening e-mail messages to federal judges and
others. Specifically, Johnson was convicted of one count of retaliating
against a judicial officer, one count of obstructing justice by making a
death threat against a judicial officer, and two counts of transmitting
threatening communications. The first three counts pertained to death
threats against federal judges. The fourth count pertained to a death threat
sent to Bill Gates. See, CCIPS release number one
<http://www.cybercrime.gov/johnson.htm> and release number two
<http://www.cybercrime.gov/johnson2.htm> regarding the Assassination
Politics matter. See also, USAO release regarding the death of Wales.
<http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/waw/pr2001/oct/twales.html> 




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