Steve Clemons has withdrawn the story about Fitzgerald renting new office space. His real estate source retracted the info.
Oh well. He goes on to say:
On other fronts, thus far I am standing with what I posted the other day about the multi-point run-down of what Fitzgerald was doing. While he hasn’t called a press conference today, which was told to me, there seems to be some likelihood that the other pieces have occurred.
I am not an expert on indictment process, but I did speak to someone who is such an expert today. As I have been informed, the Special Prosecutor can ask the grand jury to issue an indictment. That indictment request is filed with the judge in a case. If a request is made to “seal” the indictment — it shrouds everything, and keeps the process secret.
Thus, indictments may have been filed yesterday — and some are reporting that they were. Letters — according to my sources — were received by Tuesday by all indictment targets.
I am still a bit confused by the on-off information on the office space — but I have to step back from this retracted information. If, however, Fitzgerald was expanding office space in Washington (he has office space at 1400 New York Avenue), that expansion could serve either an extension of the investigation — or prosecution.
But for the time being, that is a dead end. Not fun.
