...and no, I'm not kidding about the tagline. I wish I were.
Posted on 11/17/2005 10:22:39 PM PST by HAL9000
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“Jesus loves me, my family loves me and some of my friends love me,” former Saline County Prosecutor Dan Harmon says.“That's all you need.”
Harmon, who is about to turn 61 and starting life anew, spent eight years in federal custody. He discussed his life in an exclusive interview with the Benton Courier.
Harmon was recently released from a federal penitentiary in Springfield, Mo. He said he isn't bitter about anything, but acknowledges that it's “been a long, long time” since he walked as a free man.
He has little to say about the convictions that led to his imprisonment.
(Excerpt) Read more at bentoncourier.com ...
Shouldn't he be going back to AR to face further charges/prison time?
State charges
OK, I read the article. I still give up. Who is this person and what is this about?
This guy was a particularly bad one. I don't think some of his victims got a change to start over, and it's a sad thing that he's going to get that chance, if my assumptions are correct.
He's mainly known for his role in the "Boys on the Tracks" case.
I vaguely remember this case. Wasn't there speculation at the time that the Clintons were involved with this racketeer's drug operations in some way?
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/23/171303.txt
• Sharlene Wilson, a one-time Little Rock drug dealer, told a federal grand jury in 1990 that she witnessed then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton use cocaine on multiple occasions. Not long after, she was convicted of a minor drug offense. The prosecutor who sent her to jail was her ex-boyfriend Dan Harmon, who later ended up in prison himself on drug, racketeering and extortion charges. According to British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "At the time [of her grand jury testimony] she was an informant for the Seventh Judicial District drug task force in Arkansas. Jean Duffey, the prosecutor in charge of the task force, talked to Wilson days after her grand jury appearance. "She was terrified. She said her house was being watched and she'd made a big mistake," said Duffey. "That was when she told me she'd testified about seeing Bill Clinton get so high on cocaine he fell into a garbage can. ... I have no doubt that she was telling the truth." Shortly after Wilson's testimony the drug task force was closed down. In 1992 she was sentenced to 31 years for selling half an ounce of marijuana and $100 worth of methamphetamine to an informant. ... Her case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Finding a violation of her constitutional rights, the court ordered the state of Arkansas to give Wilson a fresh trial or set her free. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted her sentence after she had served most of the Clinton administration in jail.
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"THE BOYS ON THE TRACKS"
Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. ^ | November 29, 1999 | By Mara Leveritt
Posted on 07/27/2002 10:14:17 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
There were numerous attempts to tie it to the "Mena Scandal". But several of the Mena theories were totally bogus, in my opinion - like CIA involvement, and a connection to the Ives/Henry murders.
and worse yet, the horrible thought of the Clintoon2 getting into the White House....
Thanks backhoe.
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OPINION: B.J. is a puke -- no doubt about it.
He's created his own legacy.
One of our callers to local talk radio dubbed him "That One-Man Crime Wave," but I think of him as "Little Big Fraud."
Got to be one of the worst articles, from a journalism standpoint, that I have ever seen. Absolutely no hint as to who this guy is and why he was in prison.
That's because the writer, Hollenbeck, is on Harmon's side. Here's an excerpt from Jean Duffey's piece at http://www.idfiles.com/demise.htm
To this day, two of the reporters have not abandoned their support of Dan Harmon. They are Lynda Hollenbeck with the Benton Courier and Doug Thompson with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. (In 1990, Thompson wrote for the Democrat which bought out the Gazette in 1991.) Hollenbeck and Thompson were willing participants in Harmon's smear campaign against me and my task force and neither reporter bothered to verify anything Harmon said; they just printed it - lie after lie, article after article - even when they knew Harmon was lying.
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