BREAKING NEWS: More guilty pleas expected in Beef Plant saga (Ronnie Musgrove)

Daily Journal ^ | 8/12/2008 | Patsy R. Brumfield

[dixiechick2000]

OXFORD - Beef Plant defendants Nixon Cawood and Charles Morehead, executives with The Facility Group of Georgia, are set to change their plea to guilty on a one-count information Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

So says two filings late today in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Mississippi.

Cawood's hearing is set for 10 a.m. before Chief Judge Michael P. Mills. Moreheads is set for 10 a.m. Thursday.

An information is a legal charge short of an indictment, which comes from a grand jury.

No other details were available, but it seems possible Cawood and Morehead will follow his TFG colleague Robert Moultrie, who also pleaded guilty to a one-count information Monday.

Moultrie admitted he and Cawood agreed to pay then-Gov. Ronnie Musgrove another $25,000 campaign contribution - on top of an earlier $20,000 - to ensure goodwill should they need his help later on relating to the Beef Plant.

The Facility Group was hired in 2003 by the state to consult on the plant's design and then on its construction.

The Yalobusha facility closed soon after it opened, putting hundreds of people out of work and leaving the state holding the bag on $55 million on loan guarantees.

The three executives - plus their companies - originally were indicted in March on 16 counts they conspired to bribe Musgrove and defraud the state to repay their campaign contributions.

Musgrove, now a U.S. Senate candidate, insists he did nothing wrong. He has not been indicted.

In Moultrie's plea deal, the government agreed to dismiss all those charges against him and the companies, in exchange for this new guilty plea and his cooperation in their continuing investigations.

[dixiechick2000]

Let's try this again...

I'll be darn!

[dixiechick2000]

Lookie here!

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you for your help.

I’ll check back later to see if this one is still here. ;o)

[pissant]

I’ve never seen you post a thread before!!

[dixiechick2000]

LOL!

I have, just not very many.

The article I posted before this one was pulled, so enjoy this one.
I might not post another one again! lol

J/K

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[dixiechick2000]

Here ya’ go!

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[dixiechick2000]

Thank you so much for the link!

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[dynachrome]

From wikipedia:

“American politician who was the Democratic Lieutenant Governor from 1996 to 2000 and the Governor from 2000 to 2004 of the U.S. state of Mississippi. He is currently running against incumbent Senator Roger Wicker for one of Mississippi’s seats in the U.S. Senate.”

Looks like the article “forgot” the party affiliation again.

[Admin Moderator]

;)

[dixiechick2000]

"Looks like the article “forgot” the party affiliation again."

The drive-bys must have dementia.

[pissant]

WOW. I had no idea.

[vetvetdoug]

The implications that Muskrat took bribes as a Governor are significant. Yallpolitics.com had an article on this earlier when the first crook plead guilty. Muskrat is well known in the Nashville circles as the lawyer that sucked the toes of a woman to gain access to a trust fund. Ironic, the Daily Journal and Clarion Ledger haven't mentioned Muskox’ involvement in the trust fund debacle.

[Islander7]

"....Moultrie admitted he and Cawood agreed to pay then - DEMOCRAT Gov. Ronnie Musgrove,..."

There was something missing in the original article. Go figure!

[dixiechick2000]

I’m a stealthy FReeper. ;o)

[Islander7]

Was the Musgrove tale just the beginning?

Looks like it may have been.

[dixiechick2000]

Trust fund debacle?

I knew I was out of the loop,
but I didn’t know how far!

[dixiechick2000]

WOW!

Thanks for the link!

I had no idea!
I haven’t checked Y’all Politics for a while.

It looks like he has some splainin’ to do.

[vetvetdoug]

Muskoil used his toe sucking prowess upon Robin Costa, the Chief manager of the multimillion dollar Maddox Trust, to gain control over the money in that fund and get it moved from Nashville to Olive Branch. It is ironic that Nashvillians know more about our former Governor than the Democrats in Mississippi.

I Googled the information and found your previous post and mine on Google posted already...damn...we're famous....

[vetvetdoug]

Wow! If Google found the link between Musgrove and Costa, maybe they will show the links between ole' imminent domain Travis Childers and Joey Langston Dickie Scruggs and Frankel Money Launderer Thurston Little.

[ejonesie22]

Ah, Ronnie, when we found out you were a toe sucking man whore, well it was a wee bit rough lad, but we understood, but now after all these years to finally learn you really are a liberal democrat, well I think it is a far sight more than your poor mother can bear..

[wardaddy]

damn....no need to wonder where the new black power brokers in the state got their corruption how-to-steal know how from...

geez....

when did Mississippi become Louisiana?

(ducking)

[WKB]

No matter what happens I’m still afraid Musgrove will ride Obama’s coattails to victory.

[petitfour]

ROFLOL

The corruption in MS used to be so much more dignified. lol The current crop of corruption became wayyyyy too greedy.

[struggle]

Supertalk MS had a little montage of Musgrove’s lying on tape this morning and they were mocking him relentlessly. Wickers is in like Flynn.

[SuziQ]

The Wiki article said he was the DEMOCRATIC Lt. Gov. I’d say that about covers his political party affiliation.

[dixiechick2000]

"I Googled the information and found your previous post and mine on Google posted already...damn...we're famous...."

Is money involved? ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

Hey, you!

It’s good to see you!

[dixiechick2000]

"when did Mississippi become Louisiana?"

LOL!

[dixiechick2000]

"No matter what happens I’m still afraid Musgrove will ride Obama’s coattails to victory."

Oh, heck!
I know how much you know about MS politics.

I hope you are wrong this time.

[dixiechick2000]

ROTFLOL!

That was funny!

[dixiechick2000]

I would have loved to have heard that!

I hope you are correct!

[dixiechick2000]

Have you moved yet?

[WKB]

“I hope you are wrong this time.”

It won’t be the first time I promise

[dixiechick2000]

Maybe not...but those times are so few and far between. ;o)

[ejonesie22]

How are things going?

[dixiechick2000]

Going? lol

You’ve heard about bad things coming in threes?

Well, the third shoe dropped the week before last.

Other than that...everything is good.

How are you, the baby and momma?

[ejonesie22]

Baby growing momma shrinking back to normal, everything grand but exhausting. Sorry to hear you are having a time of it. It will get better, always does.

[dixiechick2000]

"Baby growing momma shrinking back to normal, everything grand but exhausting."

GOOD! That's they way things are supposed to be.

We are on the backside of troubles, so we'll be alright shortly.

[ejonesie22]

Excellent, well at least there is a little political drama down home to keep your attention. Poor Ronnie...

[BADROTOFINGER]

I believe that the point was to illustrate that the article highlighted by this thread DID NOT mention party affiliation, and that the other poster HAD to go to wiki to get that info. Per the MSM Stylebook, party affiliation is not mentioned when it is a democrat caught crooked...JFK

[razorback-bert]

I eagerly await John Grisham’s book on this.

[dixiechick2000]

I live in a navy blue state.

Any news from “home” is good news.

I’m having a great time watching Ronnie self-destruct.

Ronnie’s chickens...are coming home...to roost. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

My goodness...John Grisham...it could happen.

lol

It’s so good to see you.

[WKB]

FWIW Ronnie sings in the choir at the First Baptist
Church in Jackson. I know the guy that stands
directly in front of him. He says Ronnie has a
beautiful “ high tenor” voice.

[Islander7]

“...He says Ronnie has a
beautiful “ high tenor” voice...”

If he does time, that should make him real popular with his room mates.

[ejonesie22]

I am sure it is about to go alto...

[razorback-bert]

John will turn the D-lawyer into the hero trying to save the charity from evil republicians.

[dixiechick2000]

"He says Ronnie has a beautiful “ high tenor” voice."

Now...why am I not surprised? ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvs0y5-9jus

LOL!