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BACKGROUND Judge Fuller & the Governor Siegelman Prosecution.
It has long been argued that Karl Rove, along with other special interest parties, worked to bring down a rising Democrat influence in the hard right wing state of Alabama. As a result of what is alleged as corrupt efforts, U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller (a multi-millionaire from Oil profits) put Democrat Governor Siegelman - in prison!
Reportedly, by the Justice-Integrity Project of Washington D.C., with reporter/activist Andrew Kreig at the helm - and - the Legal Schnauzer Blog Roger Shuler, Governor Siegelman is incarcerated by a bogus legal theory and a corrupt U.S. Attorney (Canary) whose husband is part of Commerce and a Karl Rove buddy.
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Karl Rove Goes Off on Jill Simpson during Great Van Susteren Interview
It is well documented by Mr. Kreig & Legal Schnauzer that the allegations of a corrupt prosecutorial process have substantial merits. There's much corroboration, in great part due to the fact that Jill Simpson, was inside the system and witnessed how U.S. Attorney Canary feigned recusing herself from the case; but kept controlling the prosecution of Governor Siegelman secretly.
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So much is going on - behind the scenes - that Karl Rove bounced off topic, during a Faux News Greta Van Susteren interview; as Rove went on a diatribe rant against Jill Simpson (pic above provided by 60 Minutes) and the Governor Siegelman case. This is a link (here) to the "Crooks & Liars" report on Rachael Maddow review of the bizarre tangents of Karl Rove.
It is rumored that Karl Rove went off; because his gay affair was outed during Romney POTUS run.
(See Roger Shuler's Legal Schnauzer piece on Salon - (here)) and a prior DU thread (here).
As to be expected, there are man rants & raves by Karl Rove, full of falsities, against Jill Simpson and Governor Siegelman. Karl Rove was pardoned by GW Bush; but can hope for no such blessing by the Obama Administration.
Here's Justice Integrity Project Fact Check on Rove's rant/lies - titled;
"ROVE REPEATEDLY LIES ON FOX NEWS ABOUT SIEGELMAN CASE"
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Wife Beating Arrest Results in Judge Fuller Being STRIPPED of Cases.
As (should) be expected, a U.S. District Court Judge is to be held to higher standards than those trodden by the crowd. However, such has not be true (heretofore) for His Honor {sic}. There are previous issues of domestic violence with Mark Fuller. This time, it being a public display, the Judge was (properly) arrested; and has now been stripped of his case load by the reviewing appeals court. For more details, we look to Andrew Kreig's story titled;
"COURTS STRIP DISGRACED JUDGE OF CASES, FORBID CONTACT WITH WIFE"
As reported by the Justice Integrity Project;
Separately, a Fulton County court forbade U.S. District Judge Mark E. Fuller, 55, from contact with his wife Kelli Gregg Fuller, 41, a former deputy court clerk for Fuller who phoned police late Aug. 9 from a luxury hotel to say her husband was beating her after she accused him of having an affair with a law clerk.
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As it is very important, the Justice Integrity Project focuses on Judge Fuller's spousal abuse history and sexual escapades; but there's one passage that is extremely import (in the question of - SINCE, Judge Fuller's cases are now yanked - Can Governor Siegelman finally get a fair shake).
As is reported by the Justice Integrity online article;
In October, Siegelman's attorneys will argue that his current convictions should be voided.
Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the Justice Department has always fought Siegelman's trial and appellate arguments despite many protests by legal scholars and members of the public that he was being prosecuted for political reasons, as defense attorneys and multiple whistleblowers claimed.
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It is a shame that corruption has become such a normal thing; our nations people simply accept the abuses and stand by idle. Fortunately, for U.S. neither Jill Simpson, Roger Schuler and/or Andrew Kreig are standing by idle. They continue their quests for justice, in spite of vast personal risks & losses (Roger Schuler recently lost his home, reportedly due to the corruption. He was put in jail, for an extended period of time, after he pointed out Governor Riley's political son, arguing against abortion, had a girlfriend obtain an abortion). You can see more of Roger Schuler's massive evidences at his Legal Schnauzer Blog (here).
HAT TIP to local Alabama Journalist Bob Martin
According to Andrew Kreig -
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THANK YOU - Bob Martin - we certainly need more like you!
Please keep up the good words, Jill Simpson, Roger Schuler (and his dedicated stand by wife) and Andrew Kreig! Your dedication and sacrifices for the common good earns = one of my rare - 3 Smilely Awards.
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laserhaas
(7,805 posts)FULL DISCLOSURE
and we went to Washington D.C. to seek a current version (in today's lame stream media) of a Bob Woodward/ Bernstein type guy. I know joke (often) how I hired Andrew Kreig -
to find Andrew Kreig.
I consider Andy to be a friend (also IN DEEDs) who is a former writer for the Hartford Courant, worker for Hillary's 2008 campaign, an attorney (formerly of Latham & Watkins) and fellow BB' player/boxer and co-combatant against injustice.
We (Andrew Kreig and I) trying to help Roger Schuler save his house from being (corruptively) snagged.
Andy is personally credited with going down to Alabama, at his own expense, to assist get Schuler out of jail.
Via Andrew Kreig, it was learned that - both Jill, others and I were working (separately - unknowing) on the issues that the Romney's owned voting machines.
Mr. Kreig is currently a lead consultant for the Committee to expose the erroneous issues of the Warren Commission.
Welibs
(188 posts)I always wondered by a Democrat would keep political prisons incarcerated for Republicans since they would never do something
like that for Dems.
I was hoping they'd catch up to these guys eventually and they'd be held accountable for stealing Don Siegelman's office and
tossing him in jail without cause.
Obama tried to have him incarcerated for another 20 years last year and it gave me food for thought. He's not the man I thought he was and I think a lot
of people are realizing the same thing at this point.
Thanks for posting this... IT MADE MY DAY!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)I wouldn't blame Obama for the effort to keep Siegelman in jail.
But - I do - fault our POTUS's pick of the tool Eric Holder as USAG...
Welibs
(188 posts)I always wondered by a Democrat would keep political prisoners incarcerated for Republicans since they would never do something
like that for Dems.
I was hoping they'd catch up to these guys eventually and they'd be held accountable for stealing Don Siegelman's office and
tossing him in jail without cause. Poor man!
Obama tried to have him incarcerated for another 20 years last year and it gave me food for thought. He's not the man I thought he was and I think a lot
of people have realized the same thing.
Thanks for posting this... IT MADE MY DAY!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)"Siegelman should not serve one more day in jail. "
"The prosecution of Don Siegelman may be the most outrageously unfair "corruption" prosecution ever brought by the Justice Department,"
"Why President Obama has refused to grant Siegelman a pardon or commute his sentence is incomprehensible."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bennett-l-gershman/cruel-justice-the-case-of_b_5434216.html
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)It is my plan to discuss certain cases inmy briefing
Including Governor Siegelman's
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)It ain't easy
To take down big sleazies
Uncle Joe
(58,459 posts)Thanks for the thread, laserhaas.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)of corruption.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)process who ended up doing so.
Siegelman should not be pardoned imo, that would imply he had done something wrong. He should be completely exonerated, all charges and convictions thrown out and the Perps responsible for the this enormous injustice arrested and tried, with Siegelman as a witness.
Then he should be compensated financially, if possible BY the perpetrators, Rove, his crooked judge and everyone else who conspired to destroy, not just Siegelman, but the Democratic process itself.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Of which kind of minds
Who knows