Judge orders U.S. Attorney Boutros into court over 'potential violations' of seal order
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Jon Seidel
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Chicago Sun-TimesJudge orders U.S. Attorney Boutros into court over 'potential violations' of seal ordersuntimes.comA magistrate judge has ordered U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros into court for a July 9 hearing to discuss “potential violations” of an order sealing a criminal case involving alleged Tren de Aragua gang members that was touted this week by top officials in the Justice Department.
It’s the latest shoe to drop in an ongoing credibility crisis swirling around Boutros’ office. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally entered the order Thursday, explaining she “has serious concerns regarding the government’s compliance … with the order sealing this case.”
“United States Attorney Andrew Boutros is ordered to attend this hearing in person,” McNally wrote.
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Boutros discussed the case Wednesday during a press conference with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, laying out the brutal details of the crime.
“A man kidnapped from a park in Chicago in broad daylight,” Boutros said. “Beaten, held against his will, taken to an abandoned building and shot multiple times and left in a bathtub. All in the name of Tren de Aragua. And to show just how brutal and merciless this gang is, someone then went and called the victim’s mother and told her where she could find her lifeless son’s body.”
Prosecutors called McNally’s chambers at 10:05 a.m. that same day seeking an order unsealing the complaint with certain redactions, claiming “it needed to obtain a ruling within the next 15 minutes,” McNally wrote on the court docket.
The feds also hand-delivered the proposed redactions to her chambers, the judge wrote.
Because of other court business, McNally said she was not able to take up the request immediately, so the seal remained in place. Prosecutors sent a written motion to McNally’s “proposed order inbox” at 1:25 p.m., she explained.
The judge then told prosecutors at 4:57 p.m. she would handle the motion when it was formally filed on the docket. But as of 7 p.m. Wednesday, no such filing had appeared, McNally wrote. So she ordered the feds to formally file the motion they’d sent to her inbox but added, “the government’s motion is denied.”
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