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Showing Original Post only (View all)Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer [View all]
U.S. Judge Mark E. Fuller, the guy who helped railroad Gov. Don Siegelman.
Fuller just happens to be the owner of a company that's made a huge fortune off the Pentagon and War Inc via no-bid crony War on Terror largesse.
The Pork Barrel World of Judge Mark Fuller
By Scott Horton
Harper's August 6, 2007, 5:14 pm
For the last week, weve been examining the role played by Judge Mark Everett Fuller in the trial, conviction, and sentencing of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. Today, we examine a post-trial motion, filed in April 2007, asking Fuller to recuse himself based on his extensive private business interests, which turn very heavily on contracts with the United States Government, including the Department of Justice.
The recusal motion rested upon details about Fullers personal business interests. On February 22, 2007, defense attorneys obtained information that Judge Fuller held a controlling 43.75% interest in government contractor Doss Aviation, Inc. After investigating these claims for over a month, the attorneys filed a motion for Fullers recusal on April 18, 2007. The motion stated that Fullers total stake in Doss Aviation was worth between $1-5 million, and that Fullers income from his stock for 2004 was between $100,001 and $1 million dollars.
In other words, Judge Fuller likely made more from his business income, derived from U.S. Government contracts, than as a judge. Fuller is shown on one filing as President of the principal business, Doss Aviation, and his address is shown as One Church Street, Montgomery, Alabama, the address of the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse, in which his chambers are located.
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Doss Aviation and its subsidiaries also held contracts with the FBI. This is problematic when one considers that FBI agents were present at Siegelmans trial, and that Fuller took the extraordinary step of inviting them to sit at counsels table throughout trial. Moreover, while the case was pending, Doss Aviation received a $178 million contract from the federal government.
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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000762
There's a special place for Judge Fuller, and it's not on the bench.
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K&R n/t-I'm getting this belongs in Creative Speculation attacks, brother, on another GD thread.
bobthedrummer
Dec 2012
#2
Dude, you posted a link to a conspiracy site run by an asshat extreme anti-Semite...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#21
Here's a good link: Elena Kagan and her role as a willing accomplice in Siegelman prosecution
Octafish
Dec 2012
#26
Never heard of him until you brought him up. BTW, why do you crap on my posts so much?
Octafish
Dec 2012
#31
I think I was crapping on bob's post, for using Boyden's web site as a source...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#33
Where's your contribution, siddithers? NO WHERE are you critical of the GOP persecution of Siegelman
Octafish
Dec 2012
#44
Oh, and your buddy bob just got hidden for linking to whale.to and The Church of Scientology...
SidDithers
Dec 2012
#48