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 The "Oversight"

Though Pat and his counsel felt certain select tapes of the sting operation were missing, the prosecution assured all copies were provided. After LeChasney perjured himself, these tapes posed a major concern to Pat’s perjury defense. These conversations would prove not only Pat’s innocence, but LeChasney’s earlier perjury as well. While preparing his defense, Pat contacted a court in Chicago, Illinois about acquiring transcripts of LeChasney’s Chicago proceeding five days prior to Pat’s Grand Jury appearance in Atlanta. The court claimed none existed.

One year after Pat’s trial, he learned the Chicago court had erroneously filed LeChasney as "LaChesney." Not only were there transcripts, but there were also approximately twenty undercover tapes presented in the proceeding. Pat’s prosecution later acknowledged the existence of the tapes and transcripts, deeming their seeming non-existence an "oversight."

Oddly, Pat reports his defense requested tapes Gillen claimed were nonexistent, yet Gillen presented those tapes in Chicago days earlier when prosecuting LeChasney. A similar oddity surfaced after an Atlanta proceeding just over two weeks after Pat’s trial. These transcripts revealed taped conversations of LeChasney and Mullaney discussing Pat’s belief that LeChasney funded the $150,000 loan with LeChasney’s own funds and Swindall understood the transaction to be different from the one he had discussed with Martinez.

This "oversight" cost Pat over eight months of his life in a federal penitentiary, a disgraced character, and his seat in the U. S. House of Representatives.

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