Thread: Republicans Seek Special Prosecutor for Sestak WH job claim

May 26, 2010, 5:34 PM EDT

By Laura Litvan

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans say they want a special prosecutor named to probe allegations by Representative Joe Sestak that he was offered a job by a White House official if he dropped out of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary race. Sestak defeated the candidate backed by President Barack Obama, incumbent Arlen Specter, in the May 18 vote. Since then, Sestak and the White House have been repeatedly asked by reporters and Republican officials to provide more detail about the job offer.


Led by Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Republicans today asked Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint the special prosecutor because federal laws may have been broken and they
believe an investigation led by someone outside the White House is appropriate.


“The allegations in this matter are very serious and, if true, suggest a possible violation of various federal criminal laws intended to safeguard our political process from the taint of
bribes and political machine manipulation,â€

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