{"id":196885,"date":"2008-03-17T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/speaking-of-political-prosecutions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T02:07:00","slug":"speaking-of-political-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/speaking-of-political-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Political Prosecutions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, for those of you who were wondering if the corruption case against, &#8220;Celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht&#8221; was politically motivated, the fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/03\/17\/wecht.closings.ap\/index.html\">24 of the counts filed against Wecht involve the sum of $3.06<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nope&#8230;.Not missing a decimal point.  Three dollars and six cents.  Not three hundred dollars, not three millions, three dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, nothing political here.<\/p>\n<p>He had some people working for both his private practice, and for the county, and this is a Federal case, because he is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of their case:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p> Wilson noted the work of Eileen Young, who was Wecht&#8217;s top administrative aide in the coroner&#8217;s office. Despite being paid a county salary, Wilson said Young spent the bulk of her time in the county office as &#8220;office manager&#8221; for Wecht&#8217;s private practice.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said the evidence showed that, for 2004 alone, the correspondence Young mailed or faxed brought $790,000 in revenues to Wecht&#8217;s private practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Wilson <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">might<\/span> have made some faxes or phone calls on county time, and they are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">literally<\/span> trying to make a federal case out of this.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of thing where the local DA gets him removed, and he gets a fine, if it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get my head around the whole concept of &#8220;celebrity pathologist&#8221; thing though.<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> don&#8217;t want to know what a &#8220;celebrity proctologist&#8221; is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, for those of you who were wondering if the corruption case against, &#8220;Celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht&#8221; was politically motivated, the fact 24 of the counts filed against Wecht involve the sum of $3.06. Nope&#8230;.Not missing a decimal point. Three dollars and six cents. Not three hundred dollars, not three millions, three dollars. Nope, nothing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196885"}],"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=196885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}