Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, has been summoned to testify before a federal judge. He is to appear in court later this month as the court considers appointing a special prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by federal prosecutors in the so-called “Broadview Six” case.
In an order issued Monday, federal Judge April Perry wrote that she found it “hard to believe” Boutros’ assertions that he was unaware of potential prosecutorial misconduct during the grand jury proceedings. She noted that the grand jury in the “Broadview Six” case initially declined to indict the defendants, which is rare for federal prosecutors.
Perry ordered Boutros and three federal prosecutors from his office to appear in her courtroom on Nov. 16 to testify under oath about how the case was handled. “The Court finds that there is more than sufficient factual basis for the court to conduct an inquiry into whether willfully false statements were made to the court,” Perry wrote.
Boutros and the others are expected to testify about the grand jury transcripts in the case, any redactions made in those transcripts, and the truthfulness of statements that Boutros and prosecutors from his office made in Perry’s courtroom regarding people who protested last year outside the ICE detention center in Broadview, a Chicago suburb.
The order came the same day that Douglas DePodesta, the former head of the FBI’s Chicago office, filed a lawsuit against Boutros, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. He accuses them of forcing him to resign and making him a scapegoat for failures in Boutros’ office.
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Source: Polski.FM
