Posted on 10/19/2014 7:17:58 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
In perhaps the most stunning documentation yet of abuses by Eric Holder’s Justice Department, two former Assistant United States Attorneys spoke to defense attorneys and revealed appalling deceit and corruption of justice. This latest litigation time bomb has exploded from multi-million dollar litigation originally brought by the Department of Justice against Sierra Pacific based on allegations that the lumber company and related defendants were responsible for a wildfire that destroyed 65,000 acres in California.
In what was dubbed the “Moonlight Fire” case, the tables are now turned. The defendants have discovered new evidence and filed a stunning motion. The new evidence and disclosures are being taken seriously by the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California—as they should be. In a shocking action, Judge Morrison C. England Jr. ordered the recusal of every federal judge in the Eastern District of California.
Sierra Pacific Industries and other defendants were compelled to pay $55 million to the United States over a period of five years and transfer 22,500 acres of land to settle massive litigation brought against them by the United States alleging that they caused a 2007 fire that destroyed 65,000 acres in California. Sierra Pacific has always maintained that the fire started elsewhere and that the state and federal investigators and Department attorneys lied. Now that settlement may go up in smoke because of the new evidence of outrageous misconduct by the federal prosecutors and the investigators from state and federal offices, as well as findings earlier this year by a state judge.
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Operation Enduring Corruption.
Stunning federal corruption case moving forward with almost no media attention
...Corrupt federal prosecutors presenting false evidence in order to shake down a blameless corporation and bring in tens of millions of dollars seems like a pretty dramatic story. Especially when former prosecutors support the charge and a chief judge acts on the allegations and takes dramatic action. Yet the media silence is deafening.
Eric Holder’s Justice Department is implicated in a dramatic and shocking case of alleged corruption that is so bad that the Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California has taken what can rightly be called the “nuclear option” and recused all the judges in the district from the casebecause they may have been defrauded by the DoJ prosecutors.
When the time comes Mr. Obama will issue a blanket pardon to holder which will shield him from everything. Much as Bush SHOULD HAVE DONE BUT DIDN’T for Scooter Libby.
Absolutely, and it's past time to start charging investigators, prosecutors and judges in conspiracies such as this and giving them a fair trial before putting them in slammers for a very long time.
No, the PEOPLE of the United States owned the land and lost the trees.
BIG difference. . .
It’s the “Just Us” Dept now......maybe it was started by a Black guy, a Muslim or a Democrat company......gotta be one of those.
” There is a myth in everyone deserving a fair trial.”
A myth? So what do you propose? Imprisonment/execution based on allegation?
guns to drug cartels
using the irs to go after political opponents
race based case decision making
nothing is surprising, they will do anything
Justice when the offense is obvious.
What is the need for a trial when the murderer is standing over the body with a smoking gun and no other weapon in sight? How is that defensible?
In most cases the only answers are “Yes. No. No excuse.”
I'm thinking the Grand Jury and Presentment could go a long way in making this a reality.
There is a myth in everyone deserving a fair trial.
Summary execution, then allegation/trial?
George Zimmerman.
The jury found him not to be a murderer.
the defense attorney normally knows whether or not his client committed the crime...However, since everyone is, indeed, entitled to a fair trial, is is the OBLIGATION of the defense to insure that a fair trial is conducted. We don't need vigilante justice...a few guilty do get off (O.J.Simpson for example) But, I assure you that if you were the accused, guilty or not, you'd want a fair trial
If I murdered and got caught I’d expect what I deserved. If I killed in self-defense it would be different of course.
We are splitting hairs here. We both know what kind of situation I’m talking about and the cases where the trial should be simply a formality. Far too often that formality turns into just what we are doing now parsing words and equivocating over points of procedure looking for loopholes. Points of procedure that invoke technicalities that let guilty people walk free or with reduced sentences and allow them to continue to terrorize society. It has happened too many times and the crime still demands justice. Some dogs have no place in society. They are usually clearly apparent.
We disagree. It is the soft on crime and the “fair trial” meme that has gotten us where we are. It is true that anything carried to the extreme is extreme but we’ve lost balance. We forgot about the Yes, NO or No Excuse and instead have allowed fabricated excuses to become the norm.
I’m glad I’m not the defense attorney who has the OBLIGATION to defend someone clearly guilty. I’d have to kill myself in shame. Some jobs just are not worth having.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
WOW! Thanks for the ping!
thx
Stunning federal corruption case moving forward with almost no media attention
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