Siegelman, Scrushy Get Prison Terms

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Siegelman, Scrushy Get Prison Terms

By BOB JOHNSON
Thursday, June 28, 2007; 9:42 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was
sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and former
HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy got nearly seven years Thursday
in a bribery and corruption case that the judge said damaged
public trust in state government.

Supporters of both men had testified at their sentencing hearing,
describing the positive impact they have had in Alabama during
their careers, as attorneys pleaded with U.S. District Judge Mark
Fuller to show mercy.

"While it is true the good far exceeds the bad, I must impose a
fair punishment to reassure all that come before this court that
justice is blind," Fuller said in sentencing Siegelman.

Both men were immediately taken into custody after the judge
denied defense requests to let them remain free while they appeal.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062802166.html

[BamaLefty]

1. I really feel bad for Gov. Siegelman

Although he did indeed commit a crime, he has a family that loves him dearly and is in need of prayer and support.

I'm friends with his son and I know firsthand that this has been an excruciating experience for the Siegelman family.

[trof]

6. Did he really commit a crime?

That is highly questionable.
See my post below.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Apperently the jury believed that he did

[tom_paine]

2. Sounds like a Loyal Bushie "Judge" dropped the hammer

I have absolutely no doubt that he is likely in the know or perhaps up to his armpits himself in Bushevik crimes. I am not saying it is so, but it would be the Bushevik M.O. to lay down this kind of harsh sentence out of a misdirected guilty conscience.

(The judge is sentencing his own criminal aspcet, or perhaps he is just doing the work of the Royal Bushies.)

Ironically, this even as an Alabama whistleblower, an honest Republican, no less, is havign her house burned down and her car run off the road for shedding some light on the criminal maneuvers designed to hamstring Siegelman.

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000351

We are in terrible trouble as a nation. Full BushPutinization is staring us in the face.

[BamaLefty]

3. Bush appointed him

And also the "man", Bill Pryor, who will be hearing Siegelman's appeal.

That same guy STARTED the investigation back in 2001. I call foul.

[tom_paine]

4. Oh my...it is all so out in the open and shameless

Let me ask you a question, BamaLefty, as you are closer to the scene and know more about it, I am sure.

The question is this: It has long been my suspicion and contention that, some time after Reagan's trip to Philadelphia, MS to let all the Rebs know the Party of Lincoln was now the Party of Lee, that most of the KKK dropped the robes, became the CCC (Council of Conservative Citizens, pretty neat the way they did that whole 3 letter thing again to let ewveryone know like Reagan did in '81) and joined the Republic Party.

It is also my opinion, and I would like to hear your opinion as a person who lives there, that such feelings have run deep and long, that they were channeled and transformed into the Bush-Limbaugh Way, if you catch my drift.

What I am saying is that the membership of the KKK in days of old and the membership of the CCC/Republic Party in AL are now very similar. And that Limbaugh-Hannity-Coulter rhetoric is pretty much the same except it's Liberals instead of N****rs.

Is this generally the case? And if so, is that Good Ol' Boy Thing returning now, too, where the Sheriff who helped set it up is charged with investigating and so, "gosh darn it we can't find a clue, boy."

I mean, the open way that Loyal Bushie bragged about "his girls" doing it and the way these cases were dropped into Loyal Bushie hands like that. Then you tell me this is quite out in the open that the appeals judge is up to his neck in conflict-of-interest, TOO?

If you haven't noticed, conflict of interest is simply no longer a crime in Bush-Occupied America, not for Royal and Loyal Bushies, anyway.

So, have you read the Harper's article? How much of this is known in Alabama? Does the story strike you as being mostly or wholly accurate?

I am very interested in this, as relatively small as it is, it bears directly on and is the fruit of some of the deepest and most destructive attacks on the basic nature of Old Free America that the Busheviks ahve levelled, which is the Sovietization of the judicial branch.

[trof]

5. Much more about the Rove conspiracy here:

http://www.locustfork.net/blog/jill_simpsons_affidavit/jill_simpsons_famous_affidavit.html