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In reply to the discussion: Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)9. Don't let the truth get in the way of belief.
What one darn good reporter says about things:
Political Justice in Alabama: Don Siegelman Goes to Prison
August 12, 2012 | Lou Dubose
EXCERPT...
As a federal judge, Fuller held a substantial equity position$5 million to $25 millionin Doss Aviation, which provided a variety of services (flight training, avaition fuel, aircraft maintenance, air traffic control) to the Navy, Army, and Air Force. In other words, the judge was also a federal contractor, dependent on procurement decisions made in the Pentagon.
The investigation of Don Siegelman was started by Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, whose campaign had been run by Alabama political consultant Bill Canary. Pryor was subsequently appointed to the federal appellate bench by George W. Bush.
In 2002, Siegelman had been narrowly defeated, after an retabulation of votes, by Republican Congressman Rob Riley. The U.S. attorney who picked up the AG's investigation until she perhaps recused herself herself, was Leura Canary, the wife of Bill Canary. Bill Canary was working on Riley's campaign.
Before Siegelman was convicted in 2007, the same charges against him were dismissed by a federal judge hearing the case before it was assigned to Fuller. A former U.S. attorney who briefly represented Siegelman as a private lawyer told a House subcommittee that Bush Justice Department officials ordered federal prosecutors in Alabama to "review the case from top to bottom"after it was initially dismissed.
CONTINUED...
http://www.washingtonspectator.org/index.php/Blog/entry/political-justice-in-alabama-don-siegleman-goes-to-prison.html
Remember that Twilight Zone gremlin, bobthedrummer-san?
He tried ripping up the engine on the left wing.
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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