It looks like Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto needs to brush up on her legal writing skills (or fire a deputy). Judge Valerie Adair issued an Order granting Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment against him on Monday. Adair essentially ruled that the State failed to sufficiently plead the basis for the charges against Krolicki, or, as our tipster called it: "Legal Writing 101."
Krolicki was charged with two felony counts of misappropriation and falsification of accounts by a public officer, and two felony counts of misappropriation by a treasurer. Kathryn Besser, as his chief of staff, was charged with aiding and abetting Krolicki’s alleged crimes. Adair's decision comes more than a year after Krolicki was initially indicted.
Krolicki recently (wisely) rejected an opportunity to disqualify the AG from his criminal prosecution after it was disclosed that Cortez Masto's husband was holding a fund-raiser for one of Krolicki’s political opponents.
An amazing political hack job from the beginning. The AG's office is staffed with stunningly slackjawed squibs.
ReplyDeletePoor Dominic Gentile and Erika Pike Turner. They missed their chance to make $$ sending an innocent man to jail. My sympathies.
Hardly innocent. Hijacking six million dollars to assist in plastering his face all over the media may not rise to the level of a criminal charge but is still wrong! He should spend his own money for his next campaign, not the taxpayer's/state's. He should have been removed from office.
ReplyDelete9:50 - is that you, Harry? How's things in DC?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, nobody told the AG's office that that notice pleading was only allowed in civil actions. Due process makes criminal law a bitch.
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