Source for spiked Plain Dealer articles was defense attorney

AP:

A defense attorney on Friday admitted giving an FBI memo to a newspaper reporter writing about a corruption probe, and a federal judge urged a prosecutor to investigate how two other sealed documents were leaked.

The reporter's story was one of two articles that The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer had delayed publishing out of concern there would be an investigation into who disclosed the documents. The story, about a federal probe of former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White, was published Thursday after a weekly newspaper wrote about the case.

The same day, U.S. Attorney Gregory White asked the judge to find out who leaked the memo and two affidavits filed by FBI agents.

Attorney Jerome Emoff told federal Judge James S. Gwin that he gave one of the documents to a Plain Dealer reporter. The memo described an FBI interview with Ricardo Teamor, a confidant of Michael White's who pleaded guilty in April to bribery.

So the leaked documents are FBI files given to a reporter during the middle of an investigation. So it is not like the newspaper is reporting on corruption that is being ignored. It appears that the justice system is functioning properly and the only people who are thwarting the system are the newspaper and their source. It is easy to undertand why people are losing respect for the media with this kind of conduct.

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