AG Barr Served with Demand to Recuse Himself from Lev Parnas Investigation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Law and Crime


by Colin Kalmbacher | 5:14 pm, January 20th, 2020

Indicted on campaign finance, conspiracy and fraud-related charges, Ukrainian-Floridian former GOP fundraising wunderkind Lev Parnas has become something of unlikely focal point in the ongoing impeachment inquiry as of late. And now he’s making demands.

In a three-page letter released late Monday afternoon, Parnas’s legal team demanded that Attorney General Bill Barr recuse himself from the Southern District of New York’s (SDNY) prosecution of their client.

“We are counsel to Lev Parnas regarding the Federal Election Act charges for which he is under indictment in the Southern District of New York and the investigation of his alleged involvement in the subject matter of the Presidential impeachment,” the letter begins.

. . .

“The public record is replete with requests for your recusal, the reasons for that request, and public outcry that you have not,” the letter continues. “Federal ethics guidelines bar federal employees from participating in matters in which their impartiality could be questioned, including matters in which they were personally involved or about which they have personal knowledge.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ag-barr-served-with-request-to-recuse-himself-from-lev-parnas-investigation/

[volstork]

1. But who is going to enforce it?

n/t

[mpcamb]

2. Good statement. I like it.

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In a decent world, there'd be no question. Barr would recuse. He'd have to.
We live in strange times tho.

[leftieNanner]

4. In a decent world

He would not have been confirmed in the first place. In the second place, he would already be gone. As would Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Mulvaney, McConnell, Jordan, Nunes, Gohmert…….

[Quackers]

6. Forgot Graham. nt

[pazzyanne]

8. And McConnell!

[dlk]

3. They have to try

Barr is so dirty, I’m surprised he can keep his law license.

[cstanleytech]

5. Barr lacks ethics thus he will not recuse himself.

[BlueIdaho]

7. History has already shown Billy

To be one of the world’s bad guys. He doesn’t have enough days left to change that.