A federal District Court in West Virginia has ruled that an assistant U.S. Attorney’s liaison role with a nonprofit agency providing a witness in a criminal prosecution is not sufficient to disqualify the attorney or the U.S. Attorney’s Office from the case, even though the AUSA had been listed on the agency’s literature as a director of the agency. It has also said that a few small charitable contributions from other attorneys in the office is not sufficient to disqualify the office. The attorney and the executive director both testified that he attended board meetings as a liaison from the U.S. Attorney’s office, but was not a member of the board and did not participate in decision-making...