Siegelman fights on

[struggle4progress]

Published Sunday, April 27, 2008
TOMMY STEVENSON
At Large

... "Lanny was questioned under oath by FBI agents, by a representative of the DOJ, by Assistant U.S. Atty. Julia Weller, who worked for to U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, who had to recuse herself from the case because her husband, Bill, had worked for Karl Rove, Bob Riley and other prominent Alabama Republicans," Siegelman said. "There were also FBI agents in there who had worked for Sessions when he was a U.S. attorney and moved to Montgomery to work for Bill Pryor when he was attorney general. Julia Weller is also the wife of Bill Weller, who was Pryor's campaign manager.

"Every one of those people had a conflict of interest," Siegelman insisted, slapping his hand on his desk. "They should have all said to the FBI agents present who had no conflicts, 'Excuse us, we have got to recuse ourselves, he's just implicated our bosses, our husbands or people we raised money for. We've got to walk out of here'" ...

Although he was sentenced to two years in prison, Young was released last December after serving 11 months.

"As soon as the Time magazine story came out, when he was naming names about Republicans, he was immediately let out of prison and hasn't been heard from since," Siegelman said. "I don't know that anybody knows where he is, but I know Time magazine has been looking for him, as well as some other people. But they can't find him" ...

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20080427/NEWS/804270331/1013/apkeyword

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. easier to "lose" someone on the outside

inside, they keep records, there are investigations,and with things getting hot....

[formercia]

3. Bet they were waiting for him with a ride 'home'

Snitches are dead meat in Bush Gang.

[Festivito]

6. Lanny Young is under house arrest for six months.

But, no one will say where his current home sits.

That leaves us six months to have a judge order his buttocks back into a courtroom.

[pscot]

4. Down the rabbit hole

I'd like to believe Don Siegelman is as innocent as a newborn babe, but if so,then he's probably the only one in Alabama politics who is.

[struggle4progress]

5. Dunno -- but this particular prosecution has a nasty stench

[pscot]

7. Agreed. And Siegelman is our guy.

I'm just not sure that anyone in Alabama politics is really "innocent". The backstory to this case is long, convoluted and messy. Use Google news to search Lanny Young. The bio is fascinating. This would make a great movie. I'd write it as a comedy.

[genna]

8. Question: Was the evidence against Siegelmen minus Young's testimony strong enough to convict?

How dirty are Alabama politics generally?

How far does the taint go in the DOJ and the judiciary?

[struggle4progress]

9. Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal? (CBS)

... “I haven't seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done,” says Grant Woods, the former Republican attorney general of Arizona.

Woods is one of the 52 former state attorneys-general, of both parties, who’ve asked Congress to investigate the Siegelman case.

“I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square. This was a Republican state and he was the one Democrat they could never get rid of,” Woods says ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/21/60minutes/main3859830.shtml