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In reply to the discussion: Don Siegelman's friend: ‘Legal Schnauzer’ blogger arrested for contempt of court, resisting arrest [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)22. Hiya, madfloridian! Beyond weird. The late pedo US Attorney John Atchison hails from Alabama...
...John David R. Atchison, the GOP father and husband who was arrested after soliciting sex online with a minor? The family man promised what he thought was the 5-year old girl's mother he wouldn' t hurt the child -- stating he'd done it before. In reality, he was corresponding with an undercover deputy in Michigan. He showed up at the airport with toys. Originally from Alabama, the guy was a riser in the Dixie GOP. Like so many of the evil ilk, after his arrest he tried suicide in jail, the second time successfully.
I wondered if he was friends with Bob Riley, Mark Fuller and the rest of the Alabama Old GOP Boys. What Metacrawler turned up:
The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department
Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.
Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?
Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.
Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:
This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.
A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.
CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html
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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When this is the kind of person putting people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.
For some reason, the First Amendment means less and less with each passing day. Only raising awareness of Legal Schnauzer's plight -- the guy who wrote about Mark Fuller the ENRON Judge -- can protect him from these satanic warmongers and traitors. It's up to us as, obviously, Alabama and the United States of America 2013 can't or won't.
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Don Siegelman's friend: ‘Legal Schnauzer’ blogger arrested for contempt of court, resisting arrest [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2013
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Can You Help an Alabama Journalist / Political Prisoner / Don Siegelman Defender?
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#4
We have our own club, or we thought we did. It just isn't willing to fight the
sabrina 1
Oct 2013
#30
Hiya, madfloridian! Beyond weird. The late pedo US Attorney John Atchison hails from Alabama...
Octafish
Oct 2013
#22
How could anyone, who had any knowledge of this case, argue to keep Don Siegelman
sabrina 1
Oct 2013
#35
Shame on any Dem especially, who is not clamoring for a thorough investigation
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Oct 2013
#46
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Oct 2013
#38
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