Nancy DePodesta
Role at the time: Sister-in-law of Douglas DePodesta and lawyer for Broadview Six defendant Michael Rabbitt, in a statement reported by the Chicago Sun-Times
Response to this claim
U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros falsely told his Justice Department superiors that Douglas DePodesta and his sister-in-law, defense lawyer Nancy DePodesta, conspired to destroy the Broadview Six case, and the pressure Boutros created led FBI leaders to order DePodesta to resign.
“It is both heartbreaking and shameful that he was forced out of his position based on what appear to be utterly false rumors spread by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois”
Why we used this label
The reference point is Andrew Boutros's conduct in the Broadview Six prosecution and its aftermath, including his office's accounts of it to the court and DePodesta's allegation that Boutros blamed him for the case's collapse. Her statement criticizes the forced departure as heartbreaking and shameful and attributes it to false rumors spread by the U.S. attorney.