This guy hinted there are much, much worse:
The late US Attorney John David R. Atchison,
the GOP family values husband and father
arrested in Michigan after showing up for sex with a minor.
The family man promised what he thought was the 5-year old girl's mother he wouldn't hurt the child -- stating he'd done it before. In reality, he was corresponding with an undercover sheriff's deputy in Michigan. Atchison showed up at the airport with a big smile and some toys.
Originally from Alabama, the guy was a riser in the Dixie GOP. Like so many of the evil ilk, after his arrest he tried suicide in jail, the second time successfully. I was very surprised at the news of his death, considering how much the guy revealed about online predators and so forth.
Later on, I wondered if he was friends with Bob Riley, Mark Fuller and the rest of the Alabama Old GOP Boys.
What Metacrawler turned up:
The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department
Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.
Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?
Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.
Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:
This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.
A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.
CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html
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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When Fuller and Atchison are given authority to put people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.
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