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Afternoon Roundup: Feds Seek to Drop AIPAC Charges, More

By Ashby Jones

Before heading off for the weekend, let’s get you caught up on a few matters that we didn’t get to today (we’re blaming you, Justice Souter).

Feds Move to Dismiss Another Case: Only weeks removed from the Ted Stevens debacle, the Justice Department said today that it will ask for dismissal of all charges in a criminal case against two former officials of AIPAC, the influential pro-Israel lobbying organization. The rationale, according to a filing made Friday: Recent court decisions had made it hard for federal prosecutors to win the case. The disclosure will likely end the five-year legal battle between the government and lawyers for the pair: Abbe Lowell of McDermott Will & Emery and Arent Fox’s John Nassikas and Baruch Weiss. Click here for the writeup from the Blog of Legal Times.

An Aggrieved AIG Lawyer: A former AIG lawyer says she was fired after protesting what she alleges was a potentially “corrupt arrangement” between the financial-services company and a South Korean government agency that invested in an AIG real-estate fund. Click here for the WSJ story.

Au Revoir Demjanjuk? The Sixth Circuit opened the way again Friday for the Justice Department to deport alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany to face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder. The panel denied a stay of deportation for the 89-year-old retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home. Click here for the AP story.

Happy Law Day! What else can we say? It is, yes, Law Day.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).