-Caveat Lector-
US investigator follows claim of Reno vendetta against
Sydney-based lawyer
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday December 11, 2000
By John Macgregor
A high-powered Washington investigator will visit Australia to
study suggestions that the US Attorney-General, Ms Janet Reno,
may have used the FBI in a vendetta against a political rival - a
lawyer now practising in Sydney.
Mr Joseph Gersten is seeking refugee status in Australia on the
basis of "a well-founded fear of political persecution" in the
US. He was a rival of Ms Reno in Florida Democratic politics in
the 1980s and early 1990s. She laid drug and prostitution-related
charges against him in 1992.
The Chief Counsel of Washington's powerful House Committee on
Government Reform, Mr James C. Wilson, will come to Sydney early
next year after receiving fresh evidence concerning Mr Gersten.
He says he wants to "talk to Gersten, and also to Australian
law-enforcement authorities" about the FBI passing "raw and
unsubstantiated" information on Mr Gersten to the Australian
Federal Police.
The new evidence comes in documents subpoenaed from the Justice
Department, the State Attorney's Office in Florida, and leaked to
the House committee from Australian Government departments. The
committee recently furnished Mr Gersten's legal team with a copy
of a report on him, written by Nautilus Investigations and
Security Pty Ltd, a Sydney company.
According to the US Embassy in Canberra, Nautilus "volunteered"
the report to it. The report casts serious aspersions on Mr
Gersten - which he says are false.
In a covering note, Nautilus investigator Mr Langdon Rogers
pitches for business to the embassy, and offers to "return" Mr
Gersten - apparently to the US.
Nautilus's report has been sent under US Embassy letterhead to
the Commissioner of the Federal police, Mr Mick Palmer.
Tomorrow in Washington, Mr Wilson will interview Ms Susan Curtis,
the FBI agent apparently responsible for sending the letter on Mr
Gersten to the Federal police while she was a legal attach� at
the Canberra embassy.
Information about Mr Gersten's character was divulged to the NSW
Law Society and the Immigration Department by the AFP in the
mid-1990s. There has since been an attempt to withdraw his
certificate to practise law; and his application to live in
Australia as a "skilled migrant" has been refused. The FBI, Mr
Palmer, Ms Reno and her successor as Florida State Attorney, Ms
Katherine Rundle, have declined to comment on the Gersten matter.
The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, was recently briefed on the case
by advisers.
Ms Reno's moves against Mr Gersten began in 1992, when she was a
Florida State Attorney. In that year, she laid the drug and
prostitution-related charges against him. The evidence for these
charges has been seriously eroded by subpoenaed FBI documents
which the House committee has just released to Mr Gersten's legal
team.
These "302s" (reports of witness interviews) put the time of Mr
Gersten's alleged offences at 11 to 11.30pm on April 29, 1992.
The offences are claimed, by the State Attorney's Office, to have
occurred between 6.15 and 7pm. From 9pm onwards on the night in
question, Mr Gersten had credible alibis.
Mr Gersten says these newly released documents "have been
deep-sixed [suppressed] for several years, obviously because they
directly contradict the case against me by State Attorney Reno
and her successor".
A Bush victory in the US election would enable a Republican
attorney-general to act on the House committee's work, including
that related to Ms Reno's alleged abuses of power. Sources close
to the committee believe this may include Mr Gersten's case.
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