[SIDENET]

Unless I just totally missed it, his party affiliation (Democrat) wasn’t mentioned in the article.

[Crazieman]

No mention of party. Therefore democrat.

Do I win anything?

[lndrvr1972]

Really let me cry. He broke the LAW and last time I checked when that occurs you go to PRISON! Boo freaking hoo.

[danneskjold]

"He was wearing orange pants, blue slippers and kind of a faded blue khaki type shirt. He pulled it off. He still looked dignified," McDonald said.

Good to know that their focus is in the right place...

[aimee5291]

Atlanta Fed Pen is tough...wonder if they’ll be moved...

[Mad_as_heck]

"The conditions would be bad enough for a career criminal. It seems like overkill for someone like the governor,"

Excuse me if I don't cry too many tears. "Politician" is just another word for carrier criminal.

[tired1]

i hear the chicoms have a merciful solution.

[RKV]

Siegelman was accused of trading government favors for campaign donations when he was governor from 1999 to 2003 and lieutenant governor from 1995 to 1999, and Scrushy was accused of arranging $500,000 in donations to Siegelman’s campaign for a state lottery in exchange for a seat on a state hospital regulatory board. (The campaign was in debt for that much, and Siegelman, because he had co-signed the loan, was personally responsible for the debt.) Prosecutors also “claimed Siegelman and his chief of staff, Paul Hamrick, received gifts, including a Honda motorcycle for the governor that he allegedly tried to conceal from investigators. Hamrick reportedly received $25,000 for a new luxury BMW automobile.” On June 29, 2006, a Federal jury found both Siegleman and Scrushy guilty on one count of bribery, one count of conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, four counts of honest services mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

[operation clinton cleanup]

He's lost 10 to 20 pounds.

After only 12 days? He must have been quite the pig before going to jail.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

It COULD be worse. The Chinese executed today the former head of their FDA. Of course, his bribes cost numerous people to die, but you get the point!

[PAR35]

Atlanta seems like really hard time for a non-violent criminal. Unusual that they’d room him with his co-defendant.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Is it customary for two individuals convicted in a criminal conspiracy to serve their sentence in the same cell as their co-conspirators?

[MinuteGal]

If the description is correct, the men's health will deteriorate very rapidly from the Gulag conditions they have been put into.

And if anyone thinks I'm a bleeding heart liberal, don't jostle me in a dark alley any time soon.

Leni

[Malesherbes]

We are told he has his Bible with him but is bored because he has nothing to do. We need Larry King to get on this case. Larry: "What is your favorite Bible verse?"

"I don't remember," and "I like them all" are not good answers.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

And may the former governor of Arkansas join him.

[antiunion person]

If you do the crime, you do the time.

AND, what do they want, a PARDON from President Bush?? The democRATS would really love that.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Siegelman is sharing the cell with former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.

I highly doubt that.

[Revelation 911]

perhaps as governor he should have improved the menu

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I found this little tidbit on Wikipedia

However, a controversy emerged surrounding evidence that Siegelman may have been the target of a politically motivated malicious prosecution orchestrated by Karl Rove.

Yeah...Rove did it. That's why Siegelman is in prison. :)

[VOA]

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