[ThinkSouth] Indicted ... again
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Bob Davis
Nov 1, 2005, 10:13:30 AM11/1/05
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While Lewis "Scooter" Libby's indictment garnered most of the headlines last week, an Alabama politico also found himself in hot water with the feds. Don Siegelman, Alabama's former governor who is currently campaigning to win his job back, was indicted on corruption charges last week. Also charged was HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy.
Both figures have escaped the prosecutor's noose in the past 12 months. Scrushy beat his accounting fraud charges four months ago. And it was about one year ago that charges made against Siegelman were thrown out of federal court.
The former governor blames his troubles on "a few obsessed government officials" who "have spent millions of taxpayer's dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor. ..."
Federal prosecutors' offices -- ones led by Republican appointees -- do seem to have it in for the Democrat. Then again, the former governor is much like Pigpen from Peanuts comic strip. What appears to be a cloud of dust and dirt seems to follow him wherever he goes.
Who can say how the next case will play. It's sure that running for office under indictment, while not unprecedented, won't be easy.
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Posted by Bob Davis to ThinkSouth at 11/01/2005 09:50:00 AM
Both figures have escaped the prosecutor's noose in the past 12 months. Scrushy beat his accounting fraud charges four months ago. And it was about one year ago that charges made against Siegelman were thrown out of federal court.
The former governor blames his troubles on "a few obsessed government officials" who "have spent millions of taxpayer's dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor. ..."
Federal prosecutors' offices -- ones led by Republican appointees -- do seem to have it in for the Democrat. Then again, the former governor is much like Pigpen from Peanuts comic strip. What appears to be a cloud of dust and dirt seems to follow him wherever he goes.
Who can say how the next case will play. It's sure that running for office under indictment, while not unprecedented, won't be easy.
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Posted by Bob Davis to ThinkSouth at 11/01/2005 09:50:00 AM
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