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[Consider this a heads' up rumor.  I'm posting this with much less back up than I normally would. ]  Something is happening and I&...

 In 2007 I spent several weeks in the courtroom watching Nicholas Marsh, the totally focused young prosecutor in the Alaska corruption trial...

9:00 AM 3:07-CR-00056-01-JWS Judge Sedwick Anchorage Courtroom 2 USA vs. PETER KOTT (Peter Koski) (Margaret Simonia...

When Vic Kohring was convicted, the DOJ press release on Nov. 1, 2007, said A federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, has found former Alaska S...

[Dennis Zaki called me Wednesday afternoon saying he had an advance copy of a book about the trial, could he come by and drop a copy off for...

[Update Sept. 5, 2010:  Someone pointed out that these links are dead.  This one seems to have both pieces still up .] From The Anchorage ...

Kott's statement to the court was brief and while he apologized for what he said "away from the floor" [on the tapes?], he did...

In the previous post I raised a question about the math for figuring out the total amount of money Kott received for the sentencing guidelin...

Peter Kott was sentenced today to 72 months in Federal Prison. All terms to run concurrently. 3 years supervised release $10,000 fine The g...

Below is the Department of Justice press release on the Kott Trial. While they list the charges Kott was found guilty of, they neglect to ...

Well, while the real journalists were waiting for the verdict at the court yesterday, I was catching up with my life. I spent a good part o...

[I did not go to court today. I didn't even listen to the news - I had a class this evening and didn't even think to check the news...

Conspiracy For the conspiracy charge the jury has to agree that First, beginning in or about September 2005, and continuing until on or abou...

As I understand this, it basically relates to using interstate phone lines to plan your criminal action. This is based on a single phone ca...