Ex-probation Officer Implicates 'Prominent' People
From the Belleville News-Democrat
In asking a judge not to release a former St. Clair County probation officer on bond, a federal prosecutor said the defendant "implicated a number of prominent people up in Belleville and the area around."
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Porter said the government was concerned that these people might encourage James K. Fogarty, of Belleville, to flee so that he could not further implicate them. He said Fogarty, in his job as a probation officer, committed "a jaw-dropping and extraordinary breach of trust," and is a flight risk.
Porter made the comments Wednesday during a bond hearing for Fogarty, who is charged with distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Fogarty was released on a $10,000 recognizance bond and placed on electronic monitoring and home confinement with further restrictions that he not do any illegal drugs.
Last week, he pleaded not guilty. Since his arrest, he lost his job as a probation officer and was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Williams to seek employment.
Fogarty's attorney, Clyde Kuehn, said after the hearing he was unaware of some statements his client was said to have made to investigators about prominent Belleville residents which a prosecutor mentioned in court.
Kuehn said he needed to find out "what all Jim Fogarty has said to the authorities."
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From the Belleville News-Democrat
In asking a judge not to release a former St. Clair County probation officer on bond, a federal prosecutor said the defendant "implicated a number of prominent people up in Belleville and the area around."
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Porter said the government was concerned that these people might encourage James K. Fogarty, of Belleville, to flee so that he could not further implicate them. He said Fogarty, in his job as a probation officer, committed "a jaw-dropping and extraordinary breach of trust," and is a flight risk.
Porter made the comments Wednesday during a bond hearing for Fogarty, who is charged with distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Fogarty was released on a $10,000 recognizance bond and placed on electronic monitoring and home confinement with further restrictions that he not do any illegal drugs.
Last week, he pleaded not guilty. Since his arrest, he lost his job as a probation officer and was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Williams to seek employment.
Fogarty's attorney, Clyde Kuehn, said after the hearing he was unaware of some statements his client was said to have made to investigators about prominent Belleville residents which a prosecutor mentioned in court.
Kuehn said he needed to find out "what all Jim Fogarty has said to the authorities."
Read more in our daily News Update...