The Washington Post
A Parable of Politicized Prosecution

By: Jon Entine
Tuesday: July 21, 2009

Three years ago, with TV crews rolling, police helicopters swooped down on construction sites in northern Kentucky overseen by Fischer Homes, one of the 100 largest U.S. home builders. SWAT teams arrested 76 Hispanic-looking workers. Armed agents handcuffed and shackled four Fischer superintendents at dawn at their homes. Government investigators then locked down the company's headquarters and carted off thousands of documents while workers were held in conference rooms, forbidden even to contact their families. read more>

Very few of us have had direct encounters with government prosecutors, but if you run a business, you are always in their sights. We rarely stop to think about the sheer magnitude of power in the hands of government attorneys. They are in unique positions in our system, with a fundamental responsibility not to win cases, but to ensure that justice shall be done. But that’s not what always happens.

Carelessness. Ambition. Corruption. Politics. Tiny, but destructive, fuses that can explode in the face of the innocent and badly damage a business if a prosecutor is reckless. And some are. No article or book has ever pierced the veil of secrecy that hides how this system works, and sometimes fails. Until now. An unfair prosecution almost crippled Fischer Homes, a family-founded homebuilder in the Cincinnati area, and damaged the careers of hundreds, if not thousands, of people.

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