Stunning Porker Reversal!

We’re hoping this is an April Fool’s joke, but the U.S. Justice Department is asking a judge to void the conviction of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, who was found guilty of seven counts of corruption last October – like, a week before his election.

Additionally, Attorney General Eric Holder is dropping all current charges against Stevens and foregoing a new trial – citing prosecutorial misconduct.

From the New York Times:

In a stunning development, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court that they had discovered a new instance of prosecutorial misconduct in the case and asked that the convictions be voided. There would be no new trial in the case.

Mr. Stevens, who is 85, had been the longest serving Republican in the history of the Senate. He had been charged with lying on Senate disclosure forms by concealing an estimated $250,000 worth of goods and services he received, mostly to renovate a chalet he owned in Alaska. Prosecutors said he received most of the goods and services from Bill Allen, a longtime friend who had made a fortune by providing services to Alaska’s booming oil industry.

But in their filing on Wednesday, government lawyers said that trial prosecutors had concealed from Mr. Stevens’s defense lawyers the notes from an interview with Mr. Allen that raised significant doubts about the charges. Among other things, Mr. Allen asserted in the interview that the work on the Stevens home was worth only about $80,000, they said.

What’s worth a lot more than $80,000?

Anyone, anyone?

Yeah, it’s the $3 trillion ass raping that Stevens and his fellow big government Republicans administered to the taxpayers when they ruled the roost in Washington D.C. during the early part of this decade.

And while we’re sorry that “justice” was miscarried in this case, we’re still glad this whole dust-up cost Stevens his office.

Sucks for him, sure, but he sucks for America. So everybody at this point is even, we suppose.

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