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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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The U.S. government announced it will not pursue charges against Chicago Sun-Times reporter Ray Brennan under the current indictment for allegedly posing as a Senate Crime Committee employee to obtain secret testimony from Captain Dan (Tubbo) Gilbert. Instead, it will seek a new indictment via a grand jury, after a motion to dismiss was denied by Judge James R. Kirkland.
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BY GEORGE COLEMAN
WASHINGTON -(INS)- The government in an attempt to get a new indictment. Government said Friday it will not press charges against a Chicago reporter under the existing indictment.
Earlier, the defendant's lawyers lost a motion to dismiss the indictment when Kirkland overruled their contention that it was full of holes."
Assistant U. S. Attorney Frederick Smithson told a Federal court that, instead, the case against newsman Ray Brennan will go before a new Grand Jury. Smithson said the original indictments contain several defects.
Brennan, a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, allegedly represented himself as a Senate Crime Committee employee to obtain secret testimony by Captain Dan (Tubbo) Gilbert, former chief investigator for the Cook County, Ill., District Attorney.
District Judge James R. Kirkland originally ordered the newsman to go on trial Tuesday, but that plan was upset by the subsequent decision of the government lawyers.
Smithson said government witnesses scheduled to appear at Brennan's trial will now go instead before a new Federal Grand Jury
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Friday
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existing indictment to be dropped due to defects; new grand jury to consider case; original trial scheduled for tuesday canceled.
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Government will seek new indictment against Chicago Sun-Times reporter Ray Brennan, who allegedly posed as a Senate Crime Committee employee to obtain secret testimony from former Cook County investigator Captain Dan (Tubbo) Gilbert. Motion to dismiss denied by Judge James R. Kirkland. Assistant U.S. Attorney Frederick Smithson announced the decision in federal court.