Help Gov Don Siegelman by emailing AG Eric Holder (A Request by Gov Siegelman)

[mod mom]

Stevens released due to prosecutorial misconduct, what about Gov Don Siegelman's case? We need this investigated!



Dear XXXXX,


I need your help on a critical issue. Time is of the essence. I'm asking that you email influential editors and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Attorney General Holder recently abandoned the conviction against former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R). His decision had nothing to do with the merits of the Stevens case, but was based on misconduct on the part of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Holder did the right thing.

It's been a long time since we have seen the DOJ act courageously. Attorney General Holder's action gives me hope that justice can be restored and our democracy can be preserved.

An important difference between the Stevens case and my case is that I was not accused of taking even a penny for myself. In my case there are many instances of government wrongdoing. American Trial Lawyer Magazine tagged me as America's number one "Political Prisoner," Time Magazine said I was a victim of selective prosecution, and CBS's 60 Minutes exposed that the government used false testimony to convict me and withheld critical documents from my lawyers. The House Judiciary Committee even has sworn testimony that Karl Rove was involved in my prosecution as well as other serious prosecutorial misconduct.

Attorney General Holder threw out the case against Ted Stevens because the government withheld information that could have been critical to the outcome of Senator Stevens' trial.

There's far more prosecutorial misconduct in my case than in the Stevens case. Please read this letter from my lawyer to the Attorney General (PDF) which outlines some of those areas of misconduct.

After reading the letter, please email the following editors commending Eric Holder for helping to restore justice by dropping the charges against Senator Stevens but suggesting that the gross prosecutorial misconduct in my case far exceeds the misconduct in the Stevens case. Tell them the Attorney General should investigate my case and that, when he does, he will find it cries out for justice and should also be dismissed.

Please email your comments to:

Adam Cohen, Editorial Page Editor of the New York Times at [email protected]

Fred Hiatt, Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Post at [email protected]

Bruce Dold, Editorial Page Editor of the Chicago Tribune at [email protected]


Cynthia Tucker, Editorial Page Editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitutional at [email protected]

I am also asking that you write to Attorney General Holder at:
[email protected]
to express your support for his courageous step toward restoring justice and encourage him to help right the wrongs in my case as well.

Sincerely,



Don Siegelman
Governor of Alabama 1999-2003

[Uncle Joe]

1. I amazed that this hasn't already been addressed!

Thanks for the thread, mod mom.:thumbsup:

[mod mom]

2. I've written recent to Conyers after the dismissal of Stevens was announced,

but it's past time for Eric Holder to investigate this! What a can of worms that will be. they will expose the whole AL crime network!

[mod mom]

3. TPM Muck covers this:

Keying Off Stevens Decision, Siegelman Steps Up Push To Have His Own Charges Dropped

By Zachary Roth - April 7, 2009, 2:23PM

In the wake of the charges being dropped agaisnt Ted Stevens, is pressure building on the Justice Department to make a similar decision on behalf of Don Siegelman?

A lawyer for the former Alabama governor -- who last week told TPMmuckraker that the misconduct in his own case "dwarf" that in Stevens' -- sent a letter Friday to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking that Holder review the evidence of "serious and pervasive" prosecutorial misconduct in Siegelman's case.

Siegelman's lawyer, Vince Kilborn, writes:

I am heartened by your recent decision in another matter to dismiss charges in light of growing evidence of misconduct by the Justice Department. I believe that a similar review of Governor Siegelman's file ... will reveal that key information has been purposefully withheld from my client, that the prosecutors have engaged in far reaching (sic) and that justice demands immediate dismissal of all charges against Governor Siegelman.

The letter lays out several instances in which prosecutors failed to turn over evidence to the defense -- the same recurring misstep that prompted Holder to recommend having the charges against Stevens dropped.

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/keying_off_stevens_decision_siegelman_steps_up_pus.php?ref=fp4

[Kaleko]

4. Kicking ass for Don.

[Hepburn]

5. 5th rec....

....if Stevens walks for prosecutorial misconduct, then Siegelman should, too.

JMHO...:hi:

[mod mom]

6. not just walk, though, this needs investigation & prosecution (re: rove, et al)

:hi:

[Kaleko]

7. Another kick for the late crew.

[EFerrari]

8. Yes, ma'am. K&R

k&r

[mod mom]

9. Hi Beth! Let's hope there is more than a dismissal. We need some real justice

to end this type of tyranny. I re-read an old Octafish post and discovered this link yesterday:

Oct 19, 2007

Siegelman served as Alabama's Secretary of State from 1979 to 1987 and asAttorney General from 1987 to 1991. In his roles of registering corporations in Alabama and overseeing criminal investigations by the state, Siegelman had obtained evidence linking Fuller, Bush, and other top Alabama and Florida Republicans to drug trafficking and the beginning of election manipulation in Alabama favoring the GOP. Caylor claims that Mark E. Fuller, listed as Doss official in Montgomery, is the same person as Mark J. Fuller of Enterprise. Judge Mark Fuller's Enterprise residence was 10 Indigo Place.

Bert Barr, listed as Doss' registered agent, was Fuller's law firm partner in Enterprise. Fuller also inherited Cargo International, another drug running firm, from Wentworth.
Siegelman ran for Governor to go after the GOP mobsters who had bought their way into practically every state office, including the commissions that oversee and regulate dog and horse tracks, real estate, trucking, and business practices.

What we have discovered is that Judge Fuller inherited an extensive aircraft and money laundering network from one Clifford Wentworth who was busted for drug trafficking in the Drug Enforcement Administration's Operation Sunburn in 1981. In a deal worked out between then-Vice President George H. W. Bush, who was in charge of Ronald Reagan's "War on Drugs," Wentworth was sentenced by U.S. Judge for the Northern District of Florida Maurice Paul to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine with all but six months suspended. Wentworth, who served his short prison term at Eglin Air Force Base in North Florida, agreed to turn his entire air drug smuggling and money laundering operation over to Barry Seal, a contract CIA pilot, and the business network operated out of Enterprise, Alabama by current U.S. Judge Fuller. Wentworth was then ordered into the federal witness protection program and he continues to provide lucrative real estate and other services for top GOP officials in Florida and elsewhere. Seal was gunned down gangland-style at a halfway house in Baton Rouge after his conviction and agreement to turn state's evidence against the Medellin cartel and his U.S. government handlers, one of whom reportedly included Vice President Bush.

Using airfields in Dothan and Fort Rucker, Alabama, Fuller's network ensured a steady stream of drugs from Colombia and the Dominican Republic to enter the United States. Then-Alabama Attorney General Siegelman became aware of these network after being elected in 1987 and he started to crackdown.
Fuller's inherited criminal network included one money laundering operation disguised as a mobile phone firm, STN, which physically operated out of Dothan. Cassady Fuller & Marsh was Fuller's law firm in Enterprise. Most of Fuller's enterprises maintained their "DBA" (do business as) addresses in Enterprise. Another Fuller company, German Imports, was also a money laundering operation.

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/fort-payne-al/T2RH9JNLR0T90Q0NF

[EFerrari]

10. Marking to read after work. Thank you!

:kick:

[tabbycat31]

11. K&R

[seemslikeadream]

12. will do

:hi: