{"id":196886,"date":"2008-03-17T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/bush-political-show-trial-overturned\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:52:00","slug":"bush-political-show-trial-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/17\/bush-political-show-trial-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Political Show Trial Overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not normally on the side of overpaid chief executives, but Joe Nacchio is the exception.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Nacchio was convicted of insider trading, but this has ju<\/a>
st been overturned by the appellate court<\/a>, and remanded back to the lower court, with a the old judge being removed from the case<\/span>.<\/p>\n

This is noteworthy, because much of the financial problems resulted from Qwest refusing to execute surveillance against the American public when requested to do so in February<\/span> 2001, a full 7 months<\/span> before the attacks on the Pentagon and WTC.<\/p>\n

Basically, the judge excluded a number of arguments improperly, and he got seriously reamed out by the appellate court.<\/p>\n

I believe that the prosecution was intended as a warning shot to other Telco executives by Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>, “You do whatever we tell you, and f%$# the law<\/span>, or you sleep with the Fishes<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It was 2-1 decision, with one ultraconservative Bush II appointee, Jerome Holmes, siding with a Bush I appointee who dropped 3 grand at a strip club one night<\/a>, and may have patronized an “adult dating service”. He also parks in handicapped parking, and threatens people who complains.<\/p>\n

We really are going to have to “debushify” our government when this is all over.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Full disclosure, Qwest is my long distance carrier. I dumped AT&T and signed on with them about a year ago, specifically on the illegal surveillance issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not normally on the side of overpaid chief executives, but Joe Nacchio is the exception.* Nacchio was convicted of insider trading, but this has just been overturned by the appellate court, and remanded back to the lower court, with a the old judge being removed from the case. This is noteworthy, because much of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196886"}],"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=196886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}