United States v. Hubbell

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERTSON, District Judge.

Before this Court are four motions challenging the indictment in this tax evasion case.

One of the motions seeks dismissal of the entire case and will be granted: The charges in the indictment neither relate to nor arise out of the subject of the original grant of jurisdiction to the independent counsel, and the referral order under which the independent counsel is proceeding impermissibly expands that jurisdiction.

A second motion, dispositive only as to defendant Webster L. Hubbell, will also be granted: 1 The independent counsel concedes that he…