News BREAK: POGO Finds Smoking Gun of Corruption in Governor Siegelman's Case!

[laserhaas]

Last edited Mon Dec 15, 2014, 05:10 PM - Edit history (5)

For those of you who don't know, Monday is a hearing for Governor Siegelman by a Georgia visiting federal justice. The reason a GA Judge is doing so, is because all other Alabama Judge's recused themselves and the original lord of the case (Judge Mark Fuller) has been forced off the bench (due to a wife beat in public). Somehow - the PRoject on Government Oversight ("POGO&quot managed to unearth another Smoking Gun. Whereas the prosecutors in the case were giving data updates to Governor Siegelman's opponent (Governor Riley). As revealed in POGO's article;

"Justice Department Downplays Evidence of Politics in Probe of Governor"

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New evidence related to one of the most controversial public corruption cases in recent years, the 2006 conviction of Alabama’s former Democratic Governor, Donald E. Siegelman, indicates that Department of Justice prosecutors, who are supposed to ignore politics, were thinking and acting in partisan terms when they probed the governor’s administration.

The same evidence illustrates a systemic problem at the Justice Department: When the Department investigates allegations of misconduct by its own prosecutors, it typically avoids transparency or public accountability. As a result, the public can be left with a question: Is the Justice Department whitewashing prosecutorial abuse?

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Justice Department States the Fact - and then lets it slide

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As par for the course, the DOJ gives its own a pass, after admitting there were serious errors in judgments.
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According to the document, an internal affairs unit at the Justice Department reviewed the email in the course of investigating whether various Department actions against Siegelman were “politically motivated.” The internal affairs unit, known as the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), determined that the prosecutor “should not have sent the e-mail. . .and that the fact he did so raised serious questions about his judgment, especially given his supervisory authority over public corruption cases.”

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Legal Schnauzer's Roger Shuler asks the questions that beg.

In his follow up that points to POGO, Roger Shuler's blog story titled

"Why did a federal prosecutor contact Rob Riley during the investigation of former Governor Don Siegelman"

Engaging in his usual, much more blunt/to the point candor, Roger Shuler states;

Why would a prosecutor contact the campaign manager for Siegelman's primary political opponent--if, in fact, politics were not involved? Why would Rob Riley's correspondent refer to himself as a "conservative prosecutor"?

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This one item alone, the contacting of a political opponent to Siegelman - warrants a release from prison.

Hopefully - justice can start on the right path - come Monday's hearing.

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- is that that hearings over;

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[Duppers]

1. Yes...

Hopefully.

Please keep us posted. Thx.

[laserhaas]

2. We are all anxiously awaiting Monday's hearing.

Optimistic; but know the devil controls the dealings.

[malaise]

4. I sure hope he's going home for Christmas

mwanwhile Bush, CHeney et al walk free

[laserhaas]

10. Ah; but there's hope. Cheney rushed out to say "GWB knew, He Knew - it's in his book"

Top dogs worrying about who may go down - is a good thingy!

[malaise]

12. True true

[wiggs]

3. ...and following new ruling and his release, hopefully major criminal investigations and/or civil

suits against those who conspired against him. IF released...wouldn't be an end, would be a beginning.

[laserhaas]

11. To have an honorable USAG - do their job correctly...

would be a wonderful sight to see...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Rove should be frogmarched for this.

[laserhaas]

14. Rove, US Attorney Canary and many more.

KR should be kicked and rec'd right into a clank security cage.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Looks like someone stubs his toe.

[laserhaas]

15. Had to do some deep reading to find this thing.

Hope justice is served come Monday.

[asjr]

7. I will dare to hope he will be released.

This is a good man who did no wrong and did not need to undergo all that happened to him. More Republican dirty deeds were at work far too long.

[laserhaas]

16. Using DOJ to rig elections is a VERY SERIOUS crime

but it never gets punished - only reward

As was Chris Christie....

[Stargleamer]

8. Pogo finds decay and putrescence all over the place. . .

[laserhaas]

17. They're right slap dag in the muddle of it all.

Use to donate to them....

[HomerRamone]

28. That's what I thought this thread was about nt

[Ilsa]

9. Has Mark Fuller been forced to resign yet?

I know that both AL senators and others have told him to resign, but I haven't seen yet that he has. The first paragraph says he's been forced off the bench, but that may be a temporary condition while he's in rehab.

[laserhaas]

13. Eck! Could you imagine him coming out Monday morning and nixing the hearing.

Now my happiness and anxiousness - is turned to worry.

Have to go check the status of Judge slap'ess

[Hissyspit]

18. It's been a politically motivated miscarriage of justice from the beginning. And everyone knows it.

Including the DOJs.

[laserhaas]

19. theres something more than meets the eye here

May never know the whole of it.

Unkess tge Governor writes the book

[AikidoSoul]

32. HOW can so many who claim to have a conscience, sit on their hands

during this travesty of injustice?


A Christmas gift, or Honica gift.... or whatever religious celebration you practice, would be to see Siegleman freed. An apology would be the icing on the holiday cake.

God willing.

[Doctor_J]

20. waiting for the fan club to explain how this isn't the dojs concern

Anyone?

[laserhaas]

21. they're concerned all right.

That Siegelman will get out and have at them

[msanthrope]

34. Of course it's the DOJ's concern. While he was convicted under Bush, his reduced sentence and

appeals are under the current administration.

[Doctor_J]

35. And yet the governor remains in prison and the culprits free,

after six years. The doj is either not trying very hard, or really incompetent.

[laserhaas]

38. Alabama DOJ is very hard at keeping Gov locked up

And, don't get me started on their ineptitudes

[msanthrope]

41. What, precisely, is the DOJ supposed to do? nt

[sabrina 1]

22. Shame on the DOJ for allowing this travesty to persist. Not only should they have

done what they did for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, they should have done that re Siegelman where much more corruption has been revealed, and THEN they should have gone after Karl Rove and his minions who were behind this political prosecution.

He was a great Democrat. Even Republicans across the country signed a petition saying that this was one of the worst cases they have seen regarding someone who never should have been charged at all and asking for the verdict to be overturned.

But his own party has failed and betrayed him sadly.

[laserhaas]

23. same way they didnt give a dime to

Senate candidate Bill Barnes

[sabrina 1]

24. Or the gubernatorial candidate, progressive Dem, Buono, in NJ. Worse,

they endorsed Christie!! Over 60 elected NJ Dems supported that right wing moron.

[laserhaas]

25. Christie, as US Attorney.. prosecuted Dems

With a fraudster and then bribed former USAG Ahcroft n Debra Yang ..off my cases

With a $50 million NO BID "Deferred Prosecution Agreement"

You know what they ysed to call giving millions ofdollars to head fed prosecutor to forego prosecuting a target...

I'm just sayin......

[Laxman]

26. The Use Of The Power Of The U.S. Attorney's Office....

for political prosecutions is a republican art. Remember also how republicans screamed and squealed during the Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame outing investigation. Their protestations that it was a politically motivated prosecution? Can you say projection? If you want a good look at the depravity of the NJ US Attorney's office under Christie and the political nature of their operations see Lou Manzo's book Ruthless Ambition. Check it out here: http://www.ruthlessambitionthebook.com/

The late U.S. Senator from NJ, Frank Lautenberg, once accused individuals of this same USAO of aiding and abetting Christie by “trying to bring political campaign objectives into the planning of law enforcement actions” and “conducting a political campaign within the U.S. Attorney’s Office.” Lautenberg’s words will continue to haunt the conscience of anyone in power with the influence to sever this cancer from an office intended to dispense justice blindly, but who, instead, have thus far decided to ignore their responsibility to take action.

From Lou Manzo's blog:http://www.ruthlessambitionthebook.com/uncategorized/u-s-attorney-spokesperson-bridgegate/

[laserhaas]

30. Christie should be in jail fir SO many reasons

But the GOP adores, creative, evil, dispicables

[former9thward]

27. A minor correction.

Judge Fuller is not off the bench. At this time the 11th circuit has reassigned his cases to other judges but he is still a sitting judge.

[laserhaas]

29. you say tomatoe, I say tomahto

As long as he's not on the bench tomorrow


I'm not concerned with his techy pay status

Though we all want impeach hearings

[Thespian2]

31. K & R

Perhaps justice will return to Alabama.

[laserhaas]

33. we may soon see

[librechik]

36. If nothing else, this case demonstrates just what is really going on in the USDOJ

and who benefits.

[Doctor_J]

39. who's really in charge

Certainly not the AG.

[laserhaas]

40. The "friendlies" that Sheldon Adelson was paying $100 million to benefit from

Otherwise - I'd already have Mitt in jail and Bain/GSachs RICO'd

[laserhaas]

37. New thingy called THUNDERCLAP I'm

As a former eToys.com executive, I've argued many times that the internet is still.in its infancy.

"Whatsapp" thumbed that maxim home very well.

Today we learn about another odd item on the web called Thunderclap. In promoting such because several from #freedonsiegelman made nite of it to me.

It took 10 days ti move Governor Siegelman to the Montgomery courthouse. Hopefully it will take ten.minutes to give him some freedom's

Meanwhile, here,s the Thunderclap url

Http://thndr.it/1weQn1n

[laserhaas]

42. Plenty of new items over at LBN thread

Including parties that were actually at the hearing.



Please go to the new thread at LBN?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014965988

[laserhaas]

43. Hopefully - in 2 days or less - Governor Siegelman will be released for Christmas

Please go see the LBN thread notes and conversations with McCain's campaign manager.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014965988