Acting AG faced criticism for case against gay Iowa Democrat
(WorldNews Politics)

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - In 2007, Matt McCoy was a rising star in the Democratic Party, Iowa`s first openly gay senator and a leading champion for the party`s causes. But then, his allies say, McCoy`s promising career was stalled by a politically motivated federal prosecution brought by a Republican U.S. attorney, Matthew G. Whitaker, who on Wednesday became the nation`s top law enforcement official after President Donald Trump named him acting attorney general. The case against McCoy fell apart in court amid allegations of political bias and prosecutorial misconduct. A jury quickly acquitted McCoy of the criminal charge, deciding that he had not attempted to extort money from a former...