Judge Asked to Determine Who Leaked Info

[Rose Siding]

CLEVELAND -- After a weekly paper published a report, The Plain Dealer ran a previously delayed story about an investigation of the city's former mayor, and now a federal prosecutor is asking a judge to find out who leaked the information.

U.S. Attorney Gregory A. White filed the motion Thursday, the same day The Plain Dealer reported that former Mayor Michael R. White was a target of a federal investigation that began three years ago and that led to the indictment of one of White's friends.
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The story published Thursday was one of two that Doug Clifton, The Plain Dealer's editor, mentioned in a June 30 column about the legal battle that led to the jailing of a New York Times reporter who refused to divulge a source.

Clifton had said the newspaper wanted to write the stories but knew doing so probably would lead to an investigation over who leaked the documents.

At prosecutors' request, U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin set a hearing on the matter for Friday afternoon.

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