A federal judge documented a crime with timestamps. The prosecutor didn’t show up for his own verdict. The court filings tell the story.
A federal judge put it in writing. With timestamps.
On December 15, 2025, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter issued an order in the Letitia James case. He didn’t just note that the grand jury result leaked. He documented exactly when.
4:06 PM: ABC News publishes that the grand jury declined to indict.
4:39 PM: The grand jury returns the no-bill in open court.
The media reported the verdict 33 minutes before the verdict legally existed.
Grand jury proceedings are secret under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e). Unauthorized disclosure of grand jury matters is a federal crime. Someone with access to protected grand jury information was feeding reporters in real time.
A federal judge documented it. Put it in the public record. With timestamps.
That’s leak number 53.
The Prosecutor Who Didn’t Show Up
Roger Keller signed the proposed indictment. He presented the case to the Alexandria grand jury. When the grand jury returned its decision, he wasn’t in the courtroom.
He wasn’t the only one who signed it. The proposed indictment bore four signatures, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. None of them were in the courtroom when the grand jury returned its decision.
Judge Porter noted this in the first paragraph of his order: “The Assistant United States Attorney who signed the draft indictment did not appear for the hearing.”
A prosecutor presents a case. Signs the charging document. Then doesn’t show up to hear the verdict.
That’s not normal.
Prosecutors attend their own proceedings. They’re there when the foreperson delivers the decision. It’s their case.
Why wasn’t Keller there?
The Questions
Did Keller know the outcome before it happened?
If someone told him in advance it would be a no-bill, there’s no reason to attend. But that would mean the fix was in before the grand jury voted.
Was he indifferent?
He was brought in from Missouri. Handed a case he barely reviewed. At the October 25 arraignment—six weeks before the December presentations—he told Judge Walker he was still “going through the discovery right now.” His last criminal case was in 2011. Maybe he was just going through the motions.
Was he told not to be there?
Distance from the failure. Let someone else take the news.
None of these explanations are benign.
A prosecutor who believed in his case would be in that courtroom.
Keller wasn’t.
Two Facts in the Court Record
The leak. ABC published the grand jury result at 4:06 PM. The grand jury didn’t return the no-bill until 4:39 PM. Someone committed a federal crime—and a federal judge put the timestamps in the public record.
Keller’s absence. The prosecutor who signed the indictment didn’t show up for the verdict. The judge noted it in the first paragraph of his order.
Put them together.
The result leaked 33 minutes before it was announced. The prosecutor didn’t attend.
Someone knew this would fail before it failed.
This was not a background leak. It was real-time disclosure of a grand jury outcome before the court itself received it.
53 Leaks and Counting
I’ve documented 53 instances of DOJ insiders illegally leaking non-public information to journalists in the Letitia James case.
Grand jury proceedings. Witness interviews. Internal deliberations. Personnel decisions. Prosecution strategy. And now: the grand jury result itself, 33 minutes before it was returned in open court.
Every leak helped the defendant. Not one helped the prosecution.
The reporters know who their sources are. The prosecutors know what happened. The officials who managed this process know what outcome they wanted.
No one is asking them.
The Documents Don’t Disappear
Grand juries come and go. Prosecutors rotate. Leaks get published and forgotten.
The documents don’t change.
Four properties. Forty years. Contradictory sworn statements that can’t all be true. The “it looks suspicious” text. I’ve documented it all. No one has refuted any of it.
Now a federal judge has documented a federal crime—with timestamps—in the public record.
They never address the evidence.
Because they can’t.
Sam Antar is a convicted felon and registered Democrat. As CFO of Crazy Eddie, he committed securities fraud in the 1980s. Since cooperating with federal authorities, he has spent over 30 years training law enforcement agencies including the FBI, SEC, IRS, and DOJ. He has never been paid or promised anything in return for this investigation. He follows the documents, not the politics.
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Written by Sam Antar | Forensic Accountant & Fraud Investigator
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