{"id":195966,"date":"2008-06-02T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/geoff-fieger-acquitted-in-politically-motivated-trial\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:47:00","slug":"geoff-fieger-acquitted-in-politically-motivated-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/geoff-fieger-acquitted-in-politically-motivated-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Fieger Acquitted in Politically Motivated Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/02\/america\/Fieger-Acquitted.php\">the US attorney scandal is bearing bitter fruit<\/a>, and that the defense&#8217;s suggestions that this was a politically motivated prosecution found favor with the jury as a result.  Feiger was found not guilty of felony campaign finance violations.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, once destroyed, faith in the Department of Justice will not come back simply through regime change, so public corruption charges will be difficult to prosecute for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the US attorney scandal is bearing bitter fruit, and that the defense&#8217;s suggestions that this was a politically motivated prosecution found favor with the jury as a result. Feiger was found not guilty of felony campaign finance violations. Unfortunately, once destroyed, faith in the Department of Justice will not come back simply &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195966"}],"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=195966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}