Pete Sessions: “Maria Hsia was indicted in California and charged here. She had a hung jury there and was convicted here. That was a…”

“Maria Hsia was indicted in California and charged here. She had a hung jury there and was convicted here. That was a critical case to the Clinton-Gore administration. It was important to them. She had the potential to cooperate and talk. At any rate, it still remains odd to me that in these high-profile cases about which much has been written in recent weeks, one of which was tried here in Washington, Judge Paez got both of them. I submit to my colleagues that perhaps that circuit is assigning those cases randomly, but this case of John Huang did not come off an indictment; it came off a plea bargain. I have a copy of the plea bargain which is part of the public record in California. It was signed by John Huang, his attorneys, and the prosecutor, a Department of Justice employee of Janet Reno who holds her job in Washington at the pleasure of the President of the United States, whose campaign was involved in this illegality. That is who was making the decision on the prosecutorial end. To me, the question is whether or not the judge handled himself correctly. Some say the judge did not know of all this material and it was not his fault; it was the prosecutor's fault. I do believe the prosecutors failed in advocating effectively the interests of the people of the United States and the rule of law in this case. In California, young people every day are getting sent to jail for 15 years, 20 years, without parole, for dealing in crack cocaine and other violations.”