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Duncan Purdy, owner of the Cambridge-based salon and antique store About Hair, was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday at the Middlesex County Courthouse. But the sentencing was postponed for reasons that were not immediately clear. Speaking to The Crimson during a recess yesterday afternoon, Purdy’s attorney J. Daniel Silverman said that he had appeared in court but was told by officials that Purdy was in custody and had not been brought in. Because court statutes state that the defendant must be present for the event, the sentencing could not take place. Purdy was found guilty...
After weeks of conflicting explanations for last December's firing of eight federal prosecutors, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally taken personal responsibility for the burgeoning scandal, announcing at the Justice Department that "mistakes were made here." But his belated admission has done little to quiet the outcry on Capitol Hill, where several leading Democrats continue to call for his resignation and even key Republicans are joining the criticism and calls for further investigation into whether the mass dismissals of the U.S. attorneys was politically motivated...
...Gonzales, who cancelled an out-of-town trip to appear at a hastily called Department of Justice (DOJ) press conference Tuesday, said, "I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on ... That's basically what I knew as attorney general." Gonzales then said he had accepted the resignation of his close collaborator and chief of staff Kyle Sampson, citing Sampson's role in orchestrating the firings. DOJ explained that Sampson had withheld information from two key Justice Department officials, who later gave sworn testimony to Congress about the firings that...
...White House sensitivity to the politically charred controversy surfaced yesterday when Dan Bartlett, one of Bush's top advisers, made a lengthy appearance in Mexico to lay out the White House version of events. Calling Gonzales "a stand-up guy," Bartlett stressed the President's full support for his attorney general...
...mail, Sampson notes that the appointment of Tim Griffin to a U.S. attorney slot in Little Rock, "was important to Harriet [Miers], Karl [Rove], etc." In response, Democrats said they would investigate the "etc." - to discover which persons at the White House or DOJ he might have been referring...