NYS Senator Libous Convicted!

[H2O Man]

24. Years ago,

there was a racist hate group that was attacking non-white young men in upstate New York. All of the attacks took place within Libous's district. These included the vicious attacks upon Asian-American students at SUNY-Binghamton, as well as shootings in Delaware County (luckily, no one was killed).

One of the gang's victims was my nephew, a high school senior. They resented that he got a lot of press as a scholar-athlete, who took his team to a state title. Seventeen men attacked my nephew in a dar parking lot, and left him for dead. (He lived, but sustained injuries that changed his life.)

I called Libous's office ....not that he could address a specific case, but because things were way out of control. He had played basketball in a men's league, against my nephew's father, and they were on decent terms. But, at first his office said he wanted to avoid "racial politics."

Later, he and I did communicate. Then he lied, outright, and told the then NYS Attorney General that I was "satisfied" when a DA dropped all the felony charges against the leader of the gang -- who admitted punching and kicking my unconscious nephew at least 12 times as he lay on the ground ....and agreed to a plea that he had an open beer at the time. A $50 fine for attempted murder. "Racial politics," indeed.

I've had a rather low opinion of Libous since then (1998).