Prosecutor: Case Isn't Rove Retaliation (man email spammed Bush)

[NVMojo]

NEW YORK (AP) - Presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the prosecution of a man accused of manipulating stock prices, a prosecutor says, disputing the man's claims that Rove set off probes to retaliate for a flood of spam e-mails to President Bush.

In papers submitted to a judge Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Siegal said the criminal case against Robert McAllister was started three days before the e-mails were sent in January 2005.

The investigation began when a staff accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission was told McAllister had made telephone threats against a stock promoter related to McAllister's events promotion company, Millennium National Events Inc., Siegal said.

McAllister's lawyer, Gerald L. Shargel, said last month he hoped to call Rove as a witness to support a claim that Rove "used his power and influence at the White House to seek quick punishment of Millennium, and therefore also Robert McAllister, for daring to spam the president's personal Web site."

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