Dana Rohrabacher: “Today we learned the joyous news our colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. McDade], was found not guilty on…”

“Today we learned the joyous news our colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. McDade], was found not guilty on all charges against him. Joe was one of the most admired and distinguished Members of this body. He is much beloved by his constituents of his Pennsylvania district. Joe, however, was targeted by a prosecutor looking for a trophy. He wanted to put a trophy of Joe on the wall, he wanted to convict a Congressman, a prosecutor intent on bringing Joe down in order to further his own career. Well, as time went on it was clear that Joe was innocent. The prosecutor, however, had to double his efforts or admit that he had wasted the taxpayers' time on a questionable, very questionable prosecution. Today, after over 4 years of brutal attack by an abusive prosecutor, Joe McDade was found innocent of all the charges against him. A jury of his peers heard the evidence and decided that they were groundless. Unfortunately Joe's defense cost him his entire life savings. He has been put through a travail that none of us would like to emulate. Well, we rejoice with Joe, but we also add the fact that he was found innocent, and we stand committed to try to make up at least for the financial loss that he suffered. He has suffered a catastrophe at the hands of an out-of-control prosecutor, a prosecutor gone berserk in order to bring down a public official in order to make himself look good.”