Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?

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Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?

by Andrew Kreig Page 1 of 2 page(s)

The top government witness in the 2006 federal conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges says prosecutors failed to give the defense required records documenting witness-coaching.

Former Siegelman aide Nick Bailey swears that prosecutors failed to reveal to the defense details of most of his two dozen prep sessions before he became the Bush Justice Department's key witness that former HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy bribed the former Democratic governor. Scrushy arranged $500,000 in donations to an education non-profit fostered by Siegelman to increase school funding. At trial, Bailey suggested the donations were required by Siegelman to reappoint Scrushy to a state regulatory board. The defendants, bolstered by legal experts and whistleblowers, claim that they were framed to eliminate Siegelman from politics.

Even more explosive is a sworn statement by Bailey's current employer Luther "Stan" Pate, another Alabama businessman.

"Nick was told that the government was working to prevent the publicizing of an alleged sexual relationship between Nick and Don Siegelman," Pate wrote. "Nick also told me that one of the agents working the Siegelman/Scrushy prosecution asked him whether he had ever taken illegal drugs with Governor Siegelman or had a sexual relationship with him. These comments had a dramatic effect on Nick, and, in my observation, added significantly to the pressure he felt to go along with whatever the prosecutors wanted him to say."

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1. K&R n/t

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2. wow

i truly hope Siegelman sees justice in his lifetime. His conviction should be overturned and people in the DOJ should be prosecuted. Judges should be impeached.

K&R.

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3. k*r Dana Simpson

She's the Republican attorney hired to do "opo" research on Siegelman. She got fed up with it and fingered
Rove etc. as setting him up. She also has loudly, and largely alone, pointed out that the Judge in this case
has a huge federal defense contract which has been ongoing during the trial.

I heard her at the National Press Club a few months ago. She was adamant on the involvement of Rove and the
Bush DoJ executing political prosecutions in the South and elsewhere.

She said that she was put off of the opo research and put onto the rottenness of the research sponsors by a request
that she try to paint Siegelman as gay by catching him in association with gays at fund raising events.

Let's take her statement as 100% accurate. That would argue against this claim about Siegelman. Why? Because,
if the government had this at the time, the Department of Justice/Rove, then there would be no need to link
up Siegelman with all of this.

Timing is critical here. The depositions were filed on June 26 of this year, it appears. But when were they given?

I don't see this deposition as necessarily true. In fact, it may be deliberately false to further compromise
Siegelman.

Only one thing is for sure - Eric Holder's Justice Department is continuing to prosecute this case and they
have not made objections to Judge Fuller's obvious conflict of interest.

Such a deal!

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