MAY 01 2007
Since the dismissals of eight United States attorneys, local lawyers,
politicians, editorial writers, members of Congress and defendants
are questioning what they say is a pattern of investigating Democrats.
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Some Ask if U.S. Attorney Dismissals Point to
Pattern of Investigating Democrats
by By Eric Lipton; Barclay Walsh and Edmund L. Andrews
New York Times 5/01/07
In 2005, after Mr. Siegelman had left office and was running again for
governor, federal prosecutors charged him with taking bribes from
the chairman of a hospital company in exchange for a seat on a state
board that approves hospital construction. Prosecutors did not show
that Mr. Siegelman benefited personally from the money; it went to a
campaign he set up to promote the creation of a state lottery to
finance education…
Tom Wright, executive editor of The Decatur Daily, said the case
looked to him like a witch hunt against a Democrat. “Their conviction
just doesn't seem right,” Mr. Wright said in an interview. “It appears
they were looking for ways to get him.”
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Since the dismissals of eight United States attorneys, local lawyers,
politicians, editorial writers, members of Congress and defendants
are questioning what they say is a pattern of investigating Democrats.
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.
Some Ask if U.S. Attorney Dismissals Point to
Pattern of Investigating Democrats
by By Eric Lipton; Barclay Walsh and Edmund L. Andrews
New York Times 5/01/07
In 2005, after Mr. Siegelman had left office and was running again for
governor, federal prosecutors charged him with taking bribes from
the chairman of a hospital company in exchange for a seat on a state
board that approves hospital construction. Prosecutors did not show
that Mr. Siegelman benefited personally from the money; it went to a
campaign he set up to promote the creation of a state lottery to
finance education…
Tom Wright, executive editor of The Decatur Daily, said the case
looked to him like a witch hunt against a Democrat. “Their conviction
just doesn't seem right,” Mr. Wright said in an interview. “It appears
they were looking for ways to get him.”
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