USA’s investigations of corrupt pol’s are being put on the back burner

Thanks to GonzoGate, and the fact that many talented US Attorney’s are leaving the DoJ, some very important investigations are on hold. Budget shortages are also being blamed according to this WSJ article :

The number of lawyers working in U.S. attorneys’ offices fell 2.4% to 5,316 between Sept. 30, 2004, and Sept. 30, 2006, after rising in earlier years, according to official figures. The head count has continued to fall during the current year, according to the Justice Department.

Justice Department statistics show that the total number of criminal cases filed by U.S. attorneys’ offices peaked in fiscal 2004 and dropped by 4.5% between then and 2006, the latest available data. The falloff was more dramatic, and began earlier, in certain categories. Drug prosecutions dropped 11% between 2002 and 2006. After a jump between 2002 and 2003, violent-crime cases fell 8.5% between 2003 and 2006. White-collar crime prosecutions increased somewhat in 2006 after declining steadily for several years, but still remained 8% below the peak in 2002 of 6,252.

One such investigation is the one aimed at Jerry Lewis, the fuckwit representative from CA. This investigation isn’t going forward due to staffing shortages in the US Attorney office handling his case. Mr. Lewis has been dirty for years and its a wonder that he has managed to evade scrutiny this long in my humble opinion. From the WSJ article:

After the lead prosecutor in the Lewis case quit, others assigned to the case took time getting up to speed. Brian Hershman, a former deputy chief of the Los Angeles office’s public corruption section, declined to comment on specific cases, but confirms that his group’s work overall was derailed by the departure of experienced prosecutors. Like several others, he says he left for more money to support his family.

Replacements “are mostly rookies,” he says. “It will be some time before they’ll be able to restore the section to what it was before.”

Something tells me the neocon’s won’t be in any hurry to resume the Lewis investigation.  The USA’s need to get their asses in gear..Lewis is probably as dirty as they come..and he has announced he will run for his seat again.