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We just passed the one-year anniversary of the day (April 5, 2007) when three top deputies and one administrator at the office of then-U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose stepped down from their leadership posts in protest of her management style. It’s an interesting milestone to reach as we await the results of a preliminary investigation by [...]

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My alma mater, Boston College Law School, scored U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to be its commencement speaker this year — an announcement the dean proudly made last January. But, now some members of the school’s faculty have sent Mukasey a letter disinviting him, Legal Blog Watch reports.
Well, technically the letter asks the AG to [...]

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The Associated Press is reporting that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Magill has been chosen to serve as interim U.S. attorney for Minnesota. Rachel Paulose announced her resignation from from the U.S. attorney’s post last November to take a job with main Justice in Washington, D.C.
Magill strikes me as particularly good choice. He is experienced, [...]

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The Star Tribune yesterday published a highly favorable analysis of the productivity of the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office under Rachel Paulose.
According to the Strib, the office prosecuted a record 668 defendants in fiscal 2007, which ended in September. The productivity gains came despite the resignations of four top managers, a drop in the number of [...]

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While I am not completely comfortable with the hang-the-mutineers-from-the-yardarm approach of the Wall Street Journal’s recent editorial, I don’t think that Rachel Paulose’s decision to leave the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office should end the inquiry into what happened there.
In a highly public uprising last April, three of Paulose’s then-deputies and an administrator stepped down from [...]

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If U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey heeds the advice of the Wall Street Journal, disgruntled staff members who lobbied for Rachel Paulose to depart from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office may soon wish they hadn’t.
In a weekend editorial entitled “Scandalette” (password required), the heavy-hitting business daily weighed in squarely behind Paulose, who recently announced that [...]

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The news that Rachel Paulose would be leaving as U.S. attorney was hardly shocking. (See “Minnesota’s embattled U.S. attorney steps down” in the Star Tribune.) And I am sure that there are many in the U.S. Attorney’s Office rejoicing. The gulf that had grown between our 34-year-old U.S. attorney and her staff was wide, and, [...]

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As Minnesota Lawyer editor Mark Cohen mentioned on Friday, after months of keeping a relatively low profile, U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose has stepped back into the spotlight. But after all is said and done, she might wish she hadn’t.
Local conservative blogger Scott Johnson wrote an essay for the National Review’s blog dismantled Johnson’s article in [...]

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Has the war on terror been replaced by the war on downloading? Yesterday the British record industry, along with Interpol and Dutch authorities, raided the owner of OiNK, a bit-torrent file-sharing site with almost 200,000 members, many in the United States.
The news led to rampant speculation about what, if anything, OiNK members have to [...]

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Former Star Tribune reporter Eric Black has a new post on his blog about U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose just in time for U.S. Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey’s confirmation hearing tomorrow. (See “Is Rachel Paulose in her final days?”) Black does not have much to add to his prior report that the Office of Special [...]

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