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To: bitt

Didn’t they impeach one Federal judge and he turned around and got himself elected to the same body? Alcee Hastings maybe?


689 posted on 05/06/2019 7:51:48 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: ichabod1

Oh, my it is even worse after the first paragraph!

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Hastings.htm

1981, a federal grand jury indicted Judge Alcee L. Hastings, appointed to the federal district court in 1979, along with his friend William A. Borders, a Washington, D.C. lawyer. Hastings was charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice for soliciting a $150,000 bribe in return for reducing the sentences of two mob-connected felons convicted in Hastings’ court. A year after Borders was convicted of conspiracy, the result of an FBI sting effort, Hastings’s case came before the criminal court. Despite Borders’ conviction, and the fact that Hastings had indeed reduced the sentences of the two felons, he was acquitted in a criminal court in 1983 and returned to his judicial post.


790 posted on 05/06/2019 2:04:46 PM PDT by bitt (The pain IS coming!!!'>)
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