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Federal officials said yesterday that University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. is under investigation for possibly suppressing evidence during the prosecution of John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland autoworker convicted as the Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible...
...investigation was prompted by appeals from Demjanjuk's attorneys and new evidence from records of the former Soviet Union indicating Demjanjuk was not the infamous "Ivan the Terrible" guard of the Treblinka death camp. Instead, Soviet lists showed that Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp...
...Demjanjuk was convicted and extradited to Israel in 1986, where he sits on death row. Demjanjuk's attorneys are challenging the Justice Department's investigation in the hope of strengthening their appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court, federal officials said...
George Parker, a former government prosecutor, testified last week that Ryan and Walter Rockler, who headed the Office of Special Investigations, rebuffed him when he expressed doubts about the government's evidence that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible...
Justice prosecutors did change their strategy, adding the charge that Demjanjuk served as a guard at Sobibor, but without dropping the allegation that he was the "Ivan the Terri- ble" of Treblinka...