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So long with the right to a lawyer and a fair trial. >> According to Stapert, the U.S. government requested that he forfeit his fees for the case—insisting tha

So long with the right to a lawyer and a fair trial. >> According to Stapert, the U.S. government requested that he forfeit his fees for the case—insisting that the money Budovsky had paid him was tainted—a move that forced him to drop Budovsky as a client. (The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office denies that the government petitioned Stapert to forfeit the fees.) Once on U.S. soil, Budovsky was assigned a court-appointed lawyer;

mpiedrav 7y ago
Once a case is big enough for improving the reputation of prosecutors and institutions involved, they will go to any length to make it happen. Challenging the US justice system in matters of legal (and even human) rights, more often than not, leads to dead ends.