Did Obama Administration Ask Judge To Increase Gov. Don Siegelman's Sentence?
Source:
Daily Kos
Ralph Lopez
June 5, 2012
"Andrew Krieg, who writes at OpEdNews.com, reports that the Supreme Court denied Don Siegelman's appeal.
Now, Siegelman faces serving a 20 year sentence, one that Obama and DOJ
[Attorney General] Eric Holder pushed for, beyond the 7 years he was originally sentenced to serve.
In 2009, the Obama Justice Department requested that [Judge] Fuller sentence Siegelman to 20 more years in prison when his appeals are finished."
Krieg says:
"The new administration stood shoulder-to-shoulder with it's Bush predecessors in continuing the frame-up and cover-up. This was part of a "look forward, not backward" mantra that President Obama articulated most famously in avoiding accountability for Bush-era torture and cover-up.
But events make clear that the cover-ups obviously applied also to Bush's political prosecutions.
Siegelman, whose Karl Rove-inspired prosecution helped gut Alabama's
once-competitive Democratic Party, served nearly a year of his term before release on bond when whistle-blowers and legal experts helped show in 2007 and 2008 that he had been targeted for political reasons.
As trial judge, Fuller paved the way for conviction with innumerable pro-prosecution rulings that ignored clear-cut legal irregularities plus allegations of
monumental scandal.
The prominent, blunt-speaking Alabama businessman Luther 'Stan' Pate has said his fellow Republicans clearly framed Siegelman.
But [Judge] Fuller, Rove, and the vast bulk of other politicians and judges have denied wrongdoing or irregularities."
Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097552/-gov-don-siegelman-facing-20-years-obama-pushes-for-longer-sentence/
For More on President Obama's Selective Prosecutions and Non-Prosecutions:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/13/1186840/-President-Obamas-Selective-Prosecutions-&-Non-Preosecutions/
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