August 03, 2011
A Washington federal judge on Wednesday allowed former Bush administration lawyer Scott Bloch to withdraw his guilty plea for contempt of Congress, overturning a magistrate judge who denied the move even though Bloch hadn't been informed of a mandatory prison sentence.
July 12, 2011
Federal prosecutors in Washington said Monday that a former Bush administration lawyer should be allowed to recant his guilty plea in a contempt case alleging he withheld information from Congress while it investigated his decision to have several government computers wiped.
March 31, 2011
A judge Wednesday sentenced Scott J. Bloch, the controversial former head of the federal whistleblower protection program, to one month in prison on a criminal contempt charge for withholding information from a congressional committee.