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Harris Plagiarized Colleague's 2007 Testimony
Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly lifted portions of a 2007 congressional testimony from a Republican colleague, according to a review of her past statements by the Washington Free Beacon.
When Harris was district attorney for the city of San Francisco, she testified before Congress on behalf of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill was designed to encourage top legal talent to consider public service by offering a student-loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors.
The bill, although never passed, received bipartisan support and was effectively argued by Harris that many district attorneys' offices were short-staffed due to the high debt burden of law school, forcing many experienced prosecutors to leave for private sector jobs.
"There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved," Harris wrote in her statement to the House Judiciary Committee. "To name just a few — child abuse, elder neglect, domestic violence, identity theft and public corruption. The stakes are simply too high to allow any attorney other than experienced prosecutors to handle these matters."
The Free Beacon reported that Harris' testimony was lifted, almost in its entirety, from a Republican colleague's own statement in support of the bill two months earlier. Paul Logli, then district attorney of Winnebago County, Illinois, gave almost identical testimony to the Senate on behalf of the bill.
The Free Beacon noted that Harris' prepared statement had identical typos from Logli's testimony such as missing punctuation and mistaken plurals.
Harris added additional paragraphs to her own version and submitted her testimony to the House while Logli presented his to the Senate. The Free Beacon confirmed that of the 1,500 words Harris submitted in her statement, nearly 1,200 (80%) were taken from Logli's own prepared remarks. Logli, who retired in 2021, did not respond to the news outlet for comment.
Last week, Harris was revealed to have plagiarized portions of her 2009 book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer." The allegations first came from Austrian Stefan Weber and were further verified by conservative investigative journalist Christopher Rufo.
Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly lifted portions of a 2007 congressional testimony from a Republican colleague, according to a review of her past statements by the Washington Free Beacon.
When Harris was district attorney for the city of San Francisco, she testified before Congress on behalf of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill was designed to encourage top legal talent to consider public service by offering a student-loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors.
The bill, although never passed, received bipartisan support and was effectively argued by Harris that many district attorneys' offices were short-staffed due to the high debt burden of law school, forcing many experienced prosecutors to leave for private sector jobs.
"There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved," Harris wrote in her statement to the House Judiciary Committee. "To name just a few — child abuse, elder neglect, domestic violence, identity theft and public corruption. The stakes are simply too high to allow any attorney other than experienced prosecutors to handle these matters."
The Free Beacon reported that Harris' testimony was lifted, almost in its entirety, from a Republican colleague's own statement in support of the bill two months earlier. Paul Logli, then district attorney of Winnebago County, Illinois, gave almost identical testimony to the Senate on behalf of the bill.
The Free Beacon noted that Harris' prepared statement had identical typos from Logli's testimony such as missing punctuation and mistaken plurals.
Harris added additional paragraphs to her own version and submitted her testimony to the House while Logli presented his to the Senate. The Free Beacon confirmed that of the 1,500 words Harris submitted in her statement, nearly 1,200 (80%) were taken from Logli's own prepared remarks. Logli, who retired in 2021, did not respond to the news outlet for comment.
Last week, Harris was revealed to have plagiarized portions of her 2009 book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer." The allegations first came from Austrian Stefan Weber and were further verified by conservative investigative journalist Christopher Rufo.
