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elleng

(130,906 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:10 PM Jun 2015

Dark Money of Super PACs Will Explode Into Blinding Fireworks. Don Siegelman

Don Siegelman, Alabama's only progressive Governor in a very Red State, was a rising star on the national political scene when Karl Rove and his clients, Alabama Republican Attorney General Bill Pryor and Bill Canary, Don's reelection opponent's campaign manager, instigated successive investigations designed to bring him down. Within DNC circles at the time, Governor Siegelman was being considered as a potential future candidate for the nation's two highest offices.

Almost immediately upon assuming office, Pryor, who now sits on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (the same court which recently denied his request for a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct), began a highly-publicized investigation leading to Don's indictment and subsequent acquittal in the Northern District of Alabama, a trial presided over by Federal Judge U.W. Clemon, who has said the prosecution was the greatest miscarriage of justice he had witnessed in his 29 years on the federal bench.

Governor Siegelman's subsequent prosecution in the shopped venue of Alabama's Middle District by the U.S. Attorney wife of Bill Canary resulted in his unjust conviction and resulting 7 1/2 year prison sentence. Disgraced Federal Judge Mark Fuller, a "judge with a grudge" due to Don's investigation of him for Retirement Systems fraud while Fuller was a state district attorney, made sure the railroading was complete. You may know Mark Fuller as the serial wife-beating, philandering judge who has now resigned his judgeship under threat of impeachment. Wife-Beating Mark Fuller Resigns In Disgrace

Don is now a federal prisoner in Oakdale, Lousiana, where he writes about reforming elections and the criminal justice system. Click here to watch our compelling documentary trailer & become outraged: Killing Atticus Finch - The Don Siegelman Story

Read Don's latest article below the fold....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391549/-Dark-Money-of-Super-PACs-Will-Explode-Into-Blinding-Fireworks

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Dark Money of Super PACs Will Explode Into Blinding Fireworks. Don Siegelman (Original Post) elleng Jun 2015 OP
Fortunately for us, a lot of them have been scams so far Warpy Jun 2015 #1
sieglemans entire case is a travesty of justice questionseverything Jun 2015 #2
Couldn't Obama pardon Seigleman? So why doesn't he? nt Damansarajaya Jun 2015 #3
Yes he could, elleng Jun 2015 #4

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
1. Fortunately for us, a lot of them have been scams so far
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:15 PM
Jun 2015

disbursing a very small percentage of the millions they rake in to candidates, party, or issue advertising while the top brass rake in enormous salaries and live large on expense accounts.

Remember, they just can't help themselves when it comes to lying, cheating--and stealing.

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