Posted on 07/13/2007 8:16:58 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was flown in shackles to Michigan and New York, with bologna sandwiches to eat, before being placed in a small cell in Oklahoma City, one of his lawyers said Friday.
Siegelman's chief attorney, Vince Kilborn, questioned his client's treatment and said the defense has been mostly unable to talk to him while preparing legal pleadings seeking his release on bond by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"It's impossible to represent somebody on an emergency motion like this without being able to talk to him," Kilborn said.
Kilborn said Siegelman has been assigned to a minimum-security federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, which is about a 520-mile drive from Siegelman's home in Birmingham. Kilborn said the former governor is expected to be taken there next week from Oklahoma City, where he is being held in a small cell at a federal prison transfer station on the edge of the Oklahoma City airport.
Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy were convicted of bribery and other charges last year in a government corruption case. Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and Scrushy to almost seven years on June 28. They spent almost two weeks sharing a cell at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta before Siegelman was transferred this week.
Scrushy is still being held in Atlanta, but according to a court filing has been designated to be transferred to a minimum-security prison in Beaumont, Texas, about 580 miles in driving distance from his home in Birmingham.
Kilborn said defense attorney Susan James went to Oklahoma City on Wednesday but could not see Siegelman until Friday, when she spent about an hour and a half with him.
"She said he looks gaunt, but is holding his head high and is keeping his spirits up," Kilborn said. He said Siegelman told James he was given several bologna sandwiches to eat during the long trip to Oklahoma City.
Federal prison officials could not be reached to confirm the ultimate destination of Scrushy or Siegelman.
So,Mr Seigelman....get used to it.
Agreed. Glad you posted it. It’s a start to getting out the story. Gotta love the internet. It seems to be a genre that is better for consevatives than liberals because of their control of the papers and airways.
Baloney sandwiches won’t kill him.
****Baloney sandwiches won’t kill him.****
Maybe the baloney was green!
ooh, barf....
Or specially imported from China just for Siegelman.
the RATS are trying to calling him “disapperead” and trying to make a parallel between that and the secret CIA prisons.
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