All I will note is that Palfrey said in at least one interview that if she was found a suicide, it was murder.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Category: Justice
Not Related!!!! Not Related!!!! Not Related!!!!
OK, I’m looking for an old comment of mine on haloscan, which I could not find, but I found this:
Susan and Michael Mukasey Marriage Profile
With their family beside them, Michael and Susan Mukasey stepped into the media spotlight when it was announced that he had been nominated as attorney general. Here’s information about their long-lasting marriage.Born:
Michael B. Mukasey: July 28, 1941 in New York City (the Bronx).Susan Bernstock:
Wedding Date:
Michael and Susan were married in New York City on July 14, 1974. According to a wedding announcement in the New York Times, Rabbi Judah Nadich performed the ceremony at Susan’s parents’ home.Children:
Michael and Susan have two children and two grandchildren.
- Marc Saroff Mukasey: Married to Nancy Eve Rothenberg on 3/19/1994 at the Pratt Mansions in New York. Both Marc and Nancy are lawyers.
- Jessica Mukasey: Married to Corey Barkoff. They have two sons.
Occupations:
Michael: Attorney General, attorney, federal judge, and federal prosecutor.Susan: Former teacher and headmistress of Ramaz Lower School.
Previous Marriages:
Susan was previously married to Mr. Saroff. The marriage ended in divorce.
My great grandfather came to this country named Saurymper (spelling varies), and he changed his name to Saroff for reasons that I don’t know.
He had one son, my grandfather, and my dad had 3 sons, and none of them were ever married to, Mukasey’s wife.
In fact, until my dad went East, we were exclusively a west coast clan.
Once Again, Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Spammer?
Yep, it’s Spamford Wallace, yet again, and he has finally lost the lawsuit that MySpace filed against him, by default. I wrote about this suit 9 months ago.
He apparently refused to respond to the court, so there was a default judgment.
If I were a judge, I’d have had his ass thrown in jail for contempt.
If I were a juror in the trial of his murderer, I might vote to convict.
They Want to Execute Him Because it Would Be Embarrassing for Him to Die of Natural Causes in Prison
That is really the crux of this trial, and his lawyers have been refused adequate security.
He is on trial for the execution of food merchants for price gouging in 1992, when he was foreign minister.
He turned himself into the American military in 2003, and has since been held without trial, so they want him tried before he dies in custody.
One of the lessons of all this is just how much the US government is willingly subverting the principals of Nuremberg in order to achieve politically expedient results.
Bush Court Confirms: Voting While Black is a Offense
They voted 6-3 to uphold Indiana’s voter discrimination identification law.
It was actually 3 opinions each supported by 3 justices, and some legal analysts claim that there is hope, since one of the concurring opinions asked for evidence of voter disenfranchisement, but I see that as a vain hope.
While I see Stephens ruling against the law if there is evidence, it is telling that there is no evidence of the sort of vote fraud that the law was intended to prevent having ever occurred in Indiana, and I see Roberts and Kennedy simply moving a bit to the right each time that such a challenge occurs.
In the United States, Any Cop Can Shoot Any Black Man in the Line of Duty, and Get off Scott Free
Let’s be clear about this a crime was committed when police pumped 50 bullets into Shawn Bell’s car.
At the very least, a refusal to test police for blood alcohol level, some of whom were on duty, and drinking, as part of their undercover work was obstruction of justice.
One of the pertinent quotes is, “Detective Michael Oliver, who fired 31 bullets the night of the shooting.” That means that he emptied a clip into the car, reloaded, rechambered a round, and emptied another magazine, assuming he started with one in the chamber, and a 15 round clip.
So, you have drunk vice cops on a sting looking for a few strippers who might go a little bit too far, and its open season on black folks, and an acquittal by a judge who knows that if he wants to go higher, he will need the support of the police department when considered for a promotion.
The depressing thing is that when all is said and done, the New York City PD is one of the best in the nation.
God Bless America.
FBI Wants to to Seize Control of the Backbone to See if You Gamble or Watch Pr0n
Really, I’m serious on this, though this could come as no surprise. It is the organizational imperative for law enforcement to ask for permission to spy on everyone all the time without oversight, as FBI Chief Mueller states:
I think legislation has to be developed that balances on one hand, the privacy rights of the individual who are receiving the information, but on the other hand, given the technology, the necessity of having some omnibus search capability utilizing filters that would identify the illegal activity as it comes through and give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point as opposed to the point where it is diffuse on the Internet
(Emphasis Ars Technica)
Obvious issue that the US does not own the internet, and it appears from his statements that he wants to be able to shut down the traffic with no judicial review, whether it be a BBS that they determine to be “terrorist”, or illegal betting in the form of an office “March Madness” pool, or fantasy baseball.
They will also be able to monitor what you buy at an online bookstore, and the content of your emails.
What’s more, in an increasingly politicized Justice Department, the possibilities for selective prosecution just boggle the mind.
Senator Domenici Admonished by Ethics Committee
Means very little, basically they just sent him a stern letter over his attempt to politically pressure US Attorney David Iglesias.
In a Blow to Fans of Franz Kafka
Magistrate Judge Schenkier of the Chicago Federal Court has ruled that the government must tell people if they are on the federal terrorism watch list.
The government argued that telling people that they were on the list would reveal state secrets.
Of course when people have petitioned the courts to be removed from the list, the government has argued that they have no standing, because they don’t know if they are on the watch list.
I think that the body cavity searches are a pretty good indicator though.
Liberty City 7 6 To Be Tried For Third Time – Miami News Story – WPLG Miami
This is getting ridiculous. A bunch of sad sacks wanted some uniforms so that they could play soldier, the were contacted by a paid informant, and while they though that they were scamming him, he was scamming them, and the FBI, to get an al Queida payoff, but they will try these bozos again.
They are trying to get a conviction based on the fact that these guys are black and scary, which might work if they weren’t utterly pathetic instead of scary.
Drip, Drip, Drip, on L’Affaire Abramoff
This time, it’s Robert Coughlin, former deputy chief of staff of the DoJ criminal division, who has pled guilty to accepting bribes.
My guess is that it’s going to go much higher, at least if the next Prez decides to pursue it.
That Shining Penitentiary on the Hill
The US has 5% of the worlds population, and 25% of the worlds prisoners.
We imprison a greater proportion of our population than the despots of the world.
Are our streets safer? Nope.
Is crime less??? Nope. (and that’s not considering the high dollar value of the Wall Street variety).
Lower taxes? Only if you’re rich.
I guess as Americans, we just need someone to hate.
Possible Coverup in Duke Cunningham Affair
The trial of Thomas Kontogiannis, the money man/money launderer of the Duke Cunningham scandal, appears under some sort of government blackout.
The government is saying that the details of the case, which are normally public record, are government secrets, because the government says so.
So very little of the plea has been revealed.
Given the history of the state secrets privilege, it was created in the 1950s, and the US government lied to the court in the case establishing the precedent, United States v. Reynolds, I’m inclined to think that this is more Bush DoJ shenanigans.
They are probably covering up for other corrupt Republicans, Rep. Lewis comes to mind.
Thielert’s Troubles: Criminal Investigations, and a Cash Crunch
There are maybe one of two of you out there who recall a couple of posts (here and here) just under a year ago about Thielert, a company that seemed to be on the verge of “great things” with its line of turbocharged diesel commercial aircraft engines.
While the tech might still be first rate, and it does sound so, the company appears to be in serious financial, and possibly legal, trouble.
It appears that the company may be very near insolvency, either through booking non existent orders to puffing up the balance sheet, or through customers who are seriously late in making payments for products that are already shipped.
My money is on the second, as two (perhaps all) of the management board have been dismissed by the board of directors.
It’s a pity. It’s nice well developed tech.
Anti Terror Clown Show: Liberty City Seven
After another few hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money, we have another mistrial.
It’s clear what happened here, a bunch of losers were contacted by an FBI informant, and they thought that he was al Queida, and that they could scam him out of money, uniforms, and maybe some assault rifles.
Fundamentally the real problem is that the material support statutes are so vague and so broad that the judge can’t throw this out of court with a big “BS” scrawled on the indictment.
Bilal Hussein Finally Freed
Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist Bilal Hussein has been freed after 2 years.
He should not have been in there two days.
I would also note that this was largely in response to the phony story pimped by Michelle Malkin (no to link her ever, sorry), so don’t go so fast in dismissing her as just a crackpot.
Maybe a collection for Hussein for a defamation suit?
Obama Would Investigate Bush Law Breaking
According to Attytood, in response to a question from Will Bunch, Obama replied that he, “would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House.”
That’s good, though I admit that there is a part of me that wants to see them all water-boarded, I know that this is wrong.
The question is how aggressively he will pursue people after the inevitable flurry of pardons in December and January, which will make this like peeling an onion.
Ha Ha!!!!!
Abu Gonzales cannot find anyone willing to hire him. He’s too toxic.
More OOXML
It appears that ISO is now working on “harmonizing” OOXML and ODF, and the Norwegian protest continues, though switching that vote would not be decisive.
However, there does appear to be an EU anti-trust investigation regarding their lobbying, (Note: the link is two months old, and so might be mooted by the vote).
My guess is that the fat lady has sung.
My other guess is that if OOXML were to become a real standard, Microsoft Office would not be certified as complying, if the experience of Internet Explorer is any guide.
FBI Goons Sent to Intimidate Wecht Jurors
While it is normal for lawyers from both sides to talk with jurors following a mistrial, it is highly unusual, at least so far as I know, for the US Attorney to send FBI agents to interview the jurors.
Absent an allegation of something like juror tampering, it simply makes no sense. FBI agents are not trained as jury consultants or litigators, and as such are not the best choice for this task.
So now, at the end what was clearly a political show trial, one in which the prosecution could not meet the burden of proof, we are seeing a highly public harassment of those jurors at the direction of the US Attorney’s office.
When this is all over, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, and the rest of her bully boys, need to be fully investigated over their actions, which are a basic affront to the concepts of laws going back to perhaps the Magna Carta.
If wrongdoing is uncovered, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with imprisonment and disbarment as the results.