This text initially appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission.
DOJ monster Andrew Weissmann dedicated his worst prosecutorial crimes 33 years in the past and consequently Mike Sessa sits in jail to at the present time.
In January of 2021, many people had been making an attempt to realize Mike Sessa and Victor Orena pardons after many years in jail.
They had been victims of Andrew Weissmann’s prosecutorial abuse within the early Nineteen Nineties. Legal professional David Schoen had discussions with President Trump in addition to others. Sadly, White Home attorneys sabotaged any pardon, and Sessa sits in jail to at the present time.
Sara Carter shared an article that was written by lawyer David Schoen in early 2021. This text is a wonderful abstract of Andrew Weissmann’s actions within the Michael Sessa case which came about within the early 1990’s [emphasis added below].
An examination of Weissmann’s work as a prosecutor signifies fairly emphatically that there’s merely no restrict to the sort or diploma of prosecutorial misconduct by which he has been keen to interact.
The examples of Weissmann’s misconduct and the lives he has ruined or value consequently may fill a ebook. Certainly, a fantastic deal has been written about his misconduct within the Enron and Arthur Anderson instances that ruined so many lives and his actions there actually had been reprehensible.
However a consideration of two instances he prosecuted virtually thirty years in the past, as a federal prosecutor within the Japanese District of New York stand alone in demonstrating his prosecutorial misconduct and authorities corruption underneath his watch that’s unparalleled.
Within the early Nineteen Nineties Weissmann, John Gleeson, and others fashioned a workforce within the federal prosecutors’ workplace in Brooklyn, NY that prosecuted alleged organized crime figures.
This group’s document, as reported by different prosecutors and informants who labored with them, signifies that they apparently determined for themselves that the ends justified any means they determined to make use of of their work, regardless of the moral transgressions they might commit alongside the way in which.
Weissmann was not glad in merely prosecuting defendants towards whom there truly was proof of a criminal offense; nor may he play by the foundations. That has been the hallmark of his complete profession.
His prosecution of two males particularly in the course of the early Nineteen Nineties demonstrates the purpose in ways in which one would have thought unimaginable, in the event that they weren’t totally documented and simple.
These two males, Michael Sessa and Victor Orena, have been in jail for thirty years, serving life sentences with out the opportunity of parole, after being convicted by way of probably the most outrageous examples of Weissmann’s misconduct on document.
I can not probably cowl within the house allotted right here all the examples of the outrageous prosecutorial misconduct by which Weissmann and his colleagues engaged in these instances; however contemplate simply these examples simply from Michael Sessa’s case.
The entire information beneath are unequivocally established by paperwork I obtained in investigating these instances and from interviews I’ve carried out with many witnesses, together with high informants who labored with Weissmann on the instances.
Weissmann and his colleagues claimed that there was an inner feud inside the so-called Colombo organized crime household in New York. It’s now clear that this “warfare” was a battle initiated by maybe probably the most corrupt FBI agent in historical past, in league with authorities informants. The agent selected sides within the household and pitted one faction towards one other.
The agent labored in tandem with a brutal mafia killer, Gregory Scarpa, who admitted to over 50 murders and really dedicated many extra.
The agent successfully gave Scarpa a license to kill and, in accordance with Scarpa’s son, who I’ve interviewed extensively, the agent participated in crimes with Scarpa (and his son), together with a number of murders, and was paid for his assist in offering data to Scarpa about his subsequent victims.
Finally the agent was charged with a number of murders and with serving to on others. All of this came about whereas the agent was Weissmann’s case agent.
The truth is, we now know that in 1992, when Scarpa was arrested on a gun cost in the midst of his killing spree, the corrupt agent went to Weissmann and his colleagues to get Scarpa out of the costs and so they intervened, persevering with his license to kill.
And killing is strictly what Scarpa did. He didn’t confine his killing to fellow mafiosos. Reasonably, by way of the license Scarpa successfully was given, utterly harmless civilians had been killed, together with a 17 yr outdated boy and a health care provider.
When Weissmann finally was confronted with indeniable proof of the corrupt relationship between the agent and Scarpa, in accordance with a former federal prosecutor concerned with the instances, Weissmann instructed her that the federal government had no obligation to reveal this corruption to the defendants in any of the instances they had been working, together with instances by which Scarpa had been the supply of knowledge towards the defendant and by which the corrupt agent testified underneath oath.
That’s precisely the situation that unfolded in Michael Sessa’s case.
Weissmann alleged that Sessa killed a person named Collucio and had him arrested. Sessa, realizing he had nothing to do with this, self-surrendered to struggle the cost, with out realizing the form of authorities misconduct he was about to face.
Within the proceedings main as much as Michael Sessa’s trial, Weissmann had Sessa’s counsel of alternative disqualified after which rushed Sessa to trial with new attorneys.
Sessa’s attorneys requested for the id of the federal government’s main supply of knowledge towards him, recognized by the federal government solely as a Confidential Supply.
Weissmann refused to reveal the id and guaranteed the decide it was not essential for the protection to know. In the course of the investigation after Sessa was tried and convicted, we realized that that supply was none apart from Gregory Scarpa.
Sessa’s attorneys in discovery requested that the NYPD investigative file be produced.
Weissmann and his associate assured the decide that they knew their obligations to reveal proof favorable to the defendant or that may impeach any authorities witness and so they advised the decide that that they had examined the NYPD file and there was no such data in it.
This was an outrageous lie of the primary order. We obtained a duplicate by way of a supply in the course of the post-conviction investigation. In reality it gives an abundance of exculpatory proof that was critically vital.
For instance, the NYPD investigation recognized 10-12 suspects within the Collucio homicide, none of whom was Michael Sessa, and one among whom was none apart from Greg Scarpa. It was full of different proof in keeping with Sessa’s innocence…
…Sessa’s protection workforce had motive to imagine that one among Weissmann’s main witnesses towards Sessa had been arrested for heinous crimes, together with kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and extra – crimes that may have undercut his credibility and that the protection was entitled to find out about. Weissmann denied all of it.
In our investigation we realized that the suspicions had been effectively based and Weissmann had blatantly lied. This identical witness testified that he had acquired no cash from the federal government in connection along with his testimony, save for meals and lodging.
In 2012, the corrupt agent admitted that the witness had in truth been paid $120,000 in connection along with his work for the federal government as Weissmann effectively knew and didn’t disclose, listening silently as an alternative because the witness lied…
Carter’s remarks had been published in this article.
Above is an image of Gregory Scarpa talked about; this man is liable for a minimum of 60 murders and was the star witness for Weissmann within the Michael Sessa case. Weissmann saved his id hidden in the course of the case.
Legal professional David Schoen shared the following:
…I’ll inform you this, in all of this universe of misconduct that occurred on this case, just one lawyer for the federal government was ever singled out that I’m conscious of , ever singled out by identify by a decide.
And that’s federal decide, and Chief Decide on the time, Sifken wrote an order within the case characterizing Weissmann’s since of ethics within the case as “myopic” and one thing that wanted to be addressed.
Decide Sifton succumbed to requests to take away Weissmann’s identify from the opinion per a request from the EDNY however right here is the doc earlier than it was modified displaying Weissmann’s identify:
In response to a chunk by Schoen on Sara Carter’s website:
Authorities informants have reported to us repeatedly that Weissmann and his colleagues lied to the courtroom frequently and that the judges appeared intimidated. Considered one of Weissmann’s main witnesses was caught on tape saying that he was advised what he was to testify to over and over.
Once I started investigating these instances, I met with Vic Orena’s lawyer, one among New York’s most revered legal protection attorneys for many years.
He was outraged by what he had seen from Weissmann.
He advised me that he refers to Weissmann as “the pathological liar” after the SNL character and he chuckled. I requested him how he may snicker about it. He stated that he has discovered Weissmann to be so evil and his habits so outrageous that they by no means know what soiled trick he’ll use subsequent after which deny and so all he may do was shake his head and snicker at how absurd it was that he saved getting away with it.
Lastly, in 1997, it appeared like Weissmann can be stopped. The Chief federal decide in Brooklyn wrote an opinion addressing the corrupt relationship between the agent and Scarpa that Weissmann had hid, that by then lastly had come to gentle.
In his opinion the decide singled out and excoriated Weissmann by identify for his “myopic” view of his moral obligations and his “reprehensible” conduct in withholding this vital proof from defendants. [Noted by Schoen above.]
Nevertheless, Weissmann’s boss wrote to the decide asking him to take away Weissmann’s identify, for worry it could influence his profession. Shockingly, the decide complied and issued a brand new opinion with out Weissmann’s identify.
I’ve each opinions and the letter. This clearly set Weissmann on the trail to believing accurately that he would be capable to make a profession out of partaking in prosecutorial misconduct and acquiring wrongful convictions with impunity.
This was the start of Andrew Weissmann’s legal historical past as a morally corrupt DOJ lawyer. His crimes embrace the treasonous act of attempting to take away President Trump from workplace.
Weissmann should face justice for his crimes.
