Giardini Case: One Year Later

One year after federal agents raided the home of a Mobile prosecutor, the FBI tells News Five the case against Steve Giardini is still open.

Investigators raided Giardini's Dauphin Street home on April 4, 2009. The next day he abruptly resigned from the District Attorney's office, but charges against him have never been filed.

"All I can tell you is a year ago they searched my clients house, and that's all we've heard and nobody's been charged with anything," said Giardini's attorney, Dennis Kinzley. "We would hope that when a person of Steve's position has been subjected to search by the FBI and a year later nothing's come of it, you'd like for your government to say hey we thought something was there and its not there."

The file on Giardini's case is sealed at the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Mobile, so what investigators were looking for in the raid and what, if anything, they found is still a mystery.

Knizley says Giardini didn't work for several months after he resigned from the DA's office, but he is now planning to return to the courtroom in a private practice.

News Five will continue to follow this story and bring you updates as we have them.