JANUARY 31 2008
1. Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker?
2. Ala. Rep. Sue Schmitz indicted in 2-year college probe
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Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker?
By Paul Kiel of TPM Muckraker
...During your confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, you pledged in response to a question from Senator
Schumer to look into the Siegelman prosecution in Alabama,
which was the subject in part of a Joint Hearing of two House
Judiciary Subcommittees. You also stated that you would review a
recent study finding that, during the Bush Administration, Democratic
officeholders have been investigated by Department prosecutors six
times more often than Republicans.
a. Please describe what steps you have taken to familiarize yourself
with the Siegelman matter, including the allegations of politicization
that Senator Schumer referenced in his question to you? Did you
review the record of our Subcommittees’ Joint Hearing on October
23, 2007?
b. Have you taken any actions or formed any views about that matter
and the allegations of political pressure referred to by Senator
Schumer and discussed at our hearing?
c. Please describe what steps you have taken to familiarize yourself
with the study regarding the relative frequency of investigations of
Democrats and Republicans. Have you taken any actions or formed
any views about that issue in response to your review of the study?
<link to source >
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Ala. Rep. Sue Schmitz indicted in 2-year
college probe
by Jay Reeves of the Associated Press
....State Rep. Sue Schmitz was arrested Thursday after being
indicted on federal charges of taking $177,251 in pay from a
program affiliated with Alabama's two-year colleges yet doing virtually
no work.
<link to source>
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1. Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker?
2. Ala. Rep. Sue Schmitz indicted in 2-year college probe
..............................................................................................................
Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker?
By Paul Kiel of TPM Muckraker
...During your confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, you pledged in response to a question from Senator
Schumer to look into the Siegelman prosecution in Alabama,
which was the subject in part of a Joint Hearing of two House
Judiciary Subcommittees. You also stated that you would review a
recent study finding that, during the Bush Administration, Democratic
officeholders have been investigated by Department prosecutors six
times more often than Republicans.
a. Please describe what steps you have taken to familiarize yourself
with the Siegelman matter, including the allegations of politicization
that Senator Schumer referenced in his question to you? Did you
review the record of our Subcommittees’ Joint Hearing on October
23, 2007?
b. Have you taken any actions or formed any views about that matter
and the allegations of political pressure referred to by Senator
Schumer and discussed at our hearing?
c. Please describe what steps you have taken to familiarize yourself
with the study regarding the relative frequency of investigations of
Democrats and Republicans. Have you taken any actions or formed
any views about that issue in response to your review of the study?
<link to source >
.............................................................................................................
Ala. Rep. Sue Schmitz indicted in 2-year
college probe
by Jay Reeves of the Associated Press
....State Rep. Sue Schmitz was arrested Thursday after being
indicted on federal charges of taking $177,251 in pay from a
program affiliated with Alabama's two-year colleges yet doing virtually
no work.
<link to source>
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