Federal prosecutor who tried Montana Freemen accused of misconduct in Billings drug case
BILLINGS — The former U.S. Attorney for Montana who prosecuted the 1998 Freemen case is accused of withholding information from a defendant in a decade-old Billings drug trafficking case.
The complaint was filed by Chief Montana Disciplinary Counsel Michael Cotter with the Commission on Practice of the Montana Supreme Court in late April against James Seykora, who may be best known for prosecuting the Freemen for their 81-day-long standoff in Garfield County.
According to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of Professional Responsibility began investigating Seykora in 2014 and concluded wrongdoing in 2017.
The two counts in the complaint include making a false statement and failing to make timely disclosures to the defense of all evidence or information known to the prosecutor.
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