{"id":193679,"date":"2008-11-24T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/24\/more-corruption-in-the-siegelman-case\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:09:00","slug":"more-corruption-in-the-siegelman-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/24\/more-corruption-in-the-siegelman-case\/","title":{"rendered":"More Corruption in the Siegelman Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it appears that the US Attorney for the district, who was married to a Republican operative, and allegedly recused herself….Well, not so much<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was those connections that led Ms. Canary, under pressure, to publicly withdraw from the Siegelman case in May 2002 \u2014 she \u201ccompletely recused herself,\u201d said the acting United States attorney, Louis Franklin \u2014 as proof that the prosecution of Mr. Siegelman would be free of partisan bias.<\/p>\n

Yet in her complaint, the Justice Department employee, Tamarah T. Grimes, cited several instances suggesting Ms. Canary maintained a close watch on the case. Ms. Grimes said a legal aide in the office reported on Mr. Siegelman\u2019s trial to Ms. Canary or her top deputy \u201cevery day, sometimes several times per day by telephone.\u201d Once, she observed Ms. Canary \u201cfrantically pacing in the executive suite\u201d after a courtroom blowup, \u201cpleading with someone\u201d to get on the phone to \u201ctell Louis he has to control his temper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Grimes also disclosed an e-mail message written by Ms. Canary commenting on legal strategy in the case and suggesting to aides that Mr. Siegelman not be allowed to \u201ccomment on court activities in the media.\u201d Ms. Grimes, who is also in a dispute with the department related to her accusations that the Siegelman prosecution team had harassed her, cited the affidavit of a former legal aide in the Montgomery office, Elizabeth Jane Crooks, who wrote that \u201cthe morning that the trial started, the U.S. attorney herself carried food and beverage over to the courthouse to support the \u2018Trial Team.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some more people who need to go to jail to show what’s wrong.<\/p>\n

To quote Pat Boone, they “should be displayed publicly and have all of his fingers and toes broken, and then publicly executed so they who think [that] those like the
imprisoned Manson and Sirhan are glamorous — will think differently.”<\/p>\n

Though to be fair to Mr. Boone, he was talking about a neo-Nazi murderer who went after children in a day care center, but the offense against society here is at least as corrosive<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it appears that the US Attorney for the district, who was married to a Republican operative, and allegedly recused herself….Well, not so much: It was those connections that led Ms. Canary, under pressure, to publicly withdraw from the Siegelman case in May 2002 \u2014 she \u201ccompletely recused herself,\u201d said the acting United States attorney, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}