Good luck reading about Cheney's legal trouble

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

out in the world beyond DU

http://ashevillian.blogspot.com/2008/11/cheney-gonzales-indicted-in-texas.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. I think I caught O'Reilly and his angels laughing about it last night

He had the two women on who, like every other canned guests act as trained parrots or lousy ventriloquist dummies for O'Reilly. They suggested that it was all too funny for some piss ant prosecutor to think they could do this.

After all justice system is one big joke to them.

[fasttense]

2. Damn I didn't know anything about it either.

When is that stupid Air America cruise going to be finished so that some real reporting can get accomplished again by Keith, Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartmann? Damn I miss their spot on reporting.

I can't believe this isn't all over the news:

"Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons."

[Mari333]

3. mostly papers outside of the US

http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&ncl=1272045690&hl=en




http://news.google.com/news?q=cheney+indicted&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&ncl=1272045690&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=more-results&cd=1

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Here's one brief article about his indictment.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

(CNN) — A grand jury in south Texas indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.

Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said, "The vice president has not received an indictment."

The Associated Press reported that the indictment stems from Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group — an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the prison companies in charge of the detention centers. It also charges Gonzales halted an investigation into abuse at the detention centers while he was attorney general.

[sattahipdeep]

5. Murder_with padlocks.

Last month, a Willacy County grand jury indicted The GEO Group, a Florida private prison company, on a murder charge in the death of a prisoner days before his release. The three-count indictment alleged The GEO Group allowed other inmates to beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. to death with padlocks stuffed into socks. The death happened in 2001 at the Raymondville facility, just four days before de la Rosa's scheduled release.

In 2006, a jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa's family $47.5 million in a civil judgment. The Cheney-Gonzalez indictment makes reference to the de la Rosa case.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6119459.html