While former partners from several Am Law 200 firms have made headlines lately for all the wrong reasons, a 525-page report released Thursday by a special prosecutor probing the Justice Department’s pursuit of late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens shows that government lawyers sometimes cross the legal line as well.

Henry Schuelke III, a former federal prosecutor and name partner at Washington, D.C.’s Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, was appointed three years ago to probe why lawyers with the Justice Department’s public integrity section failed to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to Stevens’s defense counsel at Williams & Connolly while pressing the government’s case against him.

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