Alaska Employment Law

Sedwick: No evidence that Sen. Dyson was FBI agent

Judge Sedwick has denied Victor Kohring’s motion to dismiss the indictment on grounds that the FBI used Senator Fred Dyson to interfere with Kohring’s Sixth Amendment rights.  Sedwick ruled that the motion was untimely (6 weeks after the pre-trial motion deadline) and lacked merit.

Sedwick found no evidence that Dyson was acting on behalf of the FBI.  He said, in part:

Senator Dyson’s possession of an FBI agent’s business card no more supports the inference that Dyson is a government agent than his possession of a doctor’s business card would support the inference that Senator Dyson is a physician. Finally, the last two exhibits–the e-mail exchanges [between Kohring’s attorney and prosecutors]–indicate that Dyson was not representing the government in connection with Kohring. They provide no support for the motion whatsoever, although they would support the inference that the motion at docket 98 has not been made in good faith.

U. S. v. Kohring, 2007 3131153 (D.Alaska Oct. 19, 2007).