Days before an indictment was issued against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens in July 2008, the prosecution was in turmoil.
Longtime Department of Justice prosecutor Brenda Morris had just accepted the lead role on the trial team, a position she had turned down three times before. The personnel shift rankled other career prosecutors who had spent years in Alaska building corruption cases there. One trial attorney described the move as a “slap in the face.”
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