U.S. Attorney's office in Philadelphia declines to comment on Judge Diamond's referral of Krasner
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaFederal prosecutor's office that received Judge Paul S. Diamond's referral, in an emailed reply from its public affairs officer
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declined to comment when asked whether it had opened an investigation or reached a decision on Judge Paul S. Diamond's September 15 referral of District Attorney Larry Krasner, Matthew Stiegler and the District Attorney's Office.
“The U.S. Attorney's Office declines to comment.”
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Good morning, Ben -- The U.S. Attorney's Office declines to comment. Best, Carrie
Where this statement fits
Did Larry Krasner Pressure Staff to Mislead a Federal Judge About a Murder-Conviction Appeal?
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Matthew Stiegler, chief of his office's Conviction Integrity Unit, may have pressured subordinate prosecutors to blame a departed colleague and present a false account to the court about an internal dispute over a 2022 concession in a habeas corpus case, and referred Krasner, Stiegler, and the District Attorney's Office to the U.S. Attorney's Office for investigation. Krasner disputes the judge's findings and says he will appeal.
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Emailed statement
Emailed reply from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to Dispute Index on Judge Diamond's referral of Larry Krasner
Good morning, Ben -- The U.S. Attorney's Office declines to comment. Best, Carrie
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Emailed reply from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to Dispute Index questions about whether it had opened an investigation or reached a decision on Judge Paul S. Diamond's September 15 referral of District Attorney Larry Krasner, Matthew Stiegler and the District Attorney's Office. The office declined to comment.
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Dispute Index asked the office on October 6, 2026 whether it had opened an investigation or reached a decision on the referral, and whether it could say anything on the record about how it is handling it. The question followed a September 29 court declaration in which Krasner wrote that there was reason to believe the Justice Department would act on the referral.
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The case records that the office also declined to comment on September 16, the day after the referral.
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The reference point is the question whether Krasner pressured staff to mislead a federal judge in Dennis Johnson's habeas case, which Judge Paul S. Diamond referred to this office. Asked whether it had opened an investigation or reached a decision on the referral, the office declined to comment, so we used Explicitly stayed out. The closest competing label is a finding that this is not a position event at all; it loses because the office was asked directly about its handling of the referral and declined to answer.
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