Word: demjanjuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday in Los Angeles, Tennessee judge Thomas A. Wiseman completed hearings on charges that Ryan and others suppressed evidence in the prosecution of Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk as Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible...
Ryan, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) from 1980 to 1983, is being investigated by Wiseman for his conduct during the denaturalization and extradition trials of Demjanjuk, who now sits on death row in Israel...
Einhorn, OSI prosecutor during Demjanjuk's deportation trial, denied suppressing any evidence. He said he knew nothing of Soviet records released in 1991 that indicate another man, Ivan Marchenko, was in fact Ivan the Terrible...
Last year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard the Demjanjuk case when it was in the U.S., opened a probe into the conduct of Justice Department lawyers. Now Ryan is being investigated. He testified last Friday, and Judge Thomas A. Wiseman will issue a report in a few weeks to the Sixth Circuit...
...prepare for his testimony, Ryan had to go back and think through the trial of Demjanjuk. It led him to an intense amount of introspection, but no contrition...