“Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Steskal, a lead prosecutor of a federal task force investigating stock-option backdating, is leaving his San Francisco post to join a law firm,” Joel Rosenblatt and Karen Gullo report for Bloomberg.
“Steskal’s decision, confirmed by a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco, follows the resignation of his boss, U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, earlier this week. Steskal is investigating backdating at Apple Inc. and is the lead prosecutor in the U.S. case against former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Reyes, the first CEO charged in the task force’s investigation,” Rosenblatt and Gullo report.
Rosenblatt and Gullo report, “Steskal was to try Reyes’s case in June in San Francisco. He is the second of five assistant U.S. attorneys on the task force to leave since its formation in July. He will join the San Francisco office of Mountain View, California-based Fenwick & West within 30 days. ‘Chris is the lead prosecutor in the Brocade indictment and Apple investigation,’ said Thomas Carlucci, a lawyer representing Wendy Howell, a former Apple lawyer fired by the company last month. ‘It’s hard to imagine how his departure would not have a significant impact on those cases.'”
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Retract the hounds!
Somebody made them an offer they couldn’t resist?
Fakesteve said it best- “Adios Frigtard”
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/adios-frigtard.html#links
After some sniffing around the Fenwick & West website, I found the client list for this “firm”
http://www.fenwick.com/industries/3.2.0.asp
Something is fishy here.
Money talks.
He already knew so much about the case, we couldn’t afford to NOT have him on our side!
-Stephen P Jobs
Something isn’t right when these guys last less than 6 months in the job…
Going from Public to Private law always helps your figure. . .
As in, 6 figures+ vs. 5 figures!
Money man. That’s what it is.
Perhaps he ended up in an elevator with Steve?
The Sacramento Bee, in an editorial, says these folks are leaving involuntarily, e.g. being fired. Apparently among the many many bad things in the Patriot Act is a provision bypassing Senate confirmation for US Attorneys. So Alberto G has fired the SF and San Diego Attorneys, Ryan and Lam, and who knows how many others.
Actually, there have been at least seven Federal prosecutors who have suddenly “resigned” at the request of The White House. There is a little known section of the Patriot Act that lets the Attorney General (Alberto Gonzalez) appoint replacement prosecutors without the necessary Congressional approval, with terms stretching to the end of 2008. No one knows why such an unprecedented step is being taken by the Bush White House, but, trust me, it has nothing to do with Apple.
Here’s a link to a speech given last week by California’s senior senator, Diane Feinstein: <http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/01/this-would-be-whole-lot-easier-if-this.html>
Better link…
Yes, what’s happening here goes beyond any options scandal.
Federal Government =Organized crime
Lawyers=Crooks
Hey, MacFhearghaile, I’m a crook and I feel offended!
Mike,
As I suspected your troll comes with a link from a kook off the charts leftist paranoid web site. I suspect you probably believe 9/11 was done by Bush, Cheney, Rove and the tooth fairy.