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Article: Pols selective in `zeal' patrol
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1996
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US Attorney Donald K. Stern has a lonely job these days.
Even as Massachusetts House Speaker Charlie Flaherty exits Beacon
Hill in disgrace, Stern is the man being pilloried.
Stern is taking the heat not just from Flaherty's friends, but
from the ranks of former prosecutors as well. He is guilty, his
critics allege, of something called "prosecutorial zeal."
One-time US Attorney Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan worries that Stern
pushed too hard in wringing a guilty plea for federal tax evasion out
of the man who yesterday formally became the ex-speaker of the
Massachusetts House.
Of course, O'Sullivan is a defense lawyer now, numbering among his
clients some of those Flaherty associates who came under ...