UPDATE: In the latest "Broadview Six" fallout, a federal judge overseeing a high-profile COVID-19 testing fraud case has ordered what would be a bombshell evidentiary hearing into potential misconduct by the U.S. attorney's office
No witness is off limits:
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And now more fallout, as Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman has canceled July 9 trial date in a fraud case involving the co-defendants of ex-Loretto Hospital exec Anosh Ahmed.
Coleman had set today as a prerial conference date but says "it got hijacked"
Today’s front (expletive) page.
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JUST IN: Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman sets June 17
for an evidentiary hearing into grand jury issues in a COVID-19 fraud case involving the same prosecutor as "Broadview Six."
"There are a lot of people in your sphere that I am assuming are going to be asked to come testify," judge tells prosecutors
The improper "vouching" for the Broadview Six indictment allegedly began just a minute into the very first grand jury session, when prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg told the panel they should trust she "would never ask you to charge somebody if I didn't think there was probable cause"
When a "Broadview Six" grand juror asked if everyone who walked in front of the agent's car could be charged with a conspiracy, the prosecutor scolded: "I don’t want to answer hypotheticals. We charged only people who were actually doing things.”
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