WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder won't reopen a perjury investigation of a Bush administration appointee accused of lying to Congress, an official says.
Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich, in a letter to Congress Friday, said Holder has decided against reopening the case against Bradley Schlozman, a former civil rights official and an acting U.S. attorney during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported.
Schlozman was accused of giving false testimony before Congress by U.S. Senate Democrats who were probing his actions within the Bush-era Justice Department. Critics said Schlozman politicized the Justice Department by allegedly engaging in improper hiring practices and bringing a voter-registration case against a liberal group in the run-up to a local election, the Post said.
Washington prosecutors, however, declined earlier this year to bring charges against Schlozman for lying to Congress.
"To be clear, nothing in the Attorney General's determination to sustain the U.S. Attorney's decision should be construed as an endorsement of Mr. Schlozman's improper hiring and personnel-related practices," the Post reported Weich writing in the letter.
