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Posted on 01/19/2018 4:49:30 PM PST by jazusamo
The neighbor of Sen. Rand Paul who is accused of attacking the Kentucky Republican has been charged with a federal crime, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
Rene Boucher, 58, of Bowling Green, Ky., has been charged with assaulting a member of Congress, resulting in personal injury, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Josh Minkler announced.
On Nov. 3, Boucher allegedly "had enough" after seeing Paul stack brush onto a pile near the senator's property, according to court documents.
Boucher then ran onto Paul's property and tackled him, leaving him with six broken ribs, the documents state.
Paul returned to the Senate two weeks after the incident. Earlier this month, he described the initial weeks of his recovery as "a living hell."
While Boucher has signed a plea agreement, no date has been set for him to enter his guilty plea, the Justice Department said.
He faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, according to the agreement.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, which would normally handle the case, recused itself, leaving it instead to the U.S. Attorney's Office in southern Indiana.
Paul told Fox News in late November that he wasn't sure the motive behind the assault, saying the two had not spoken in roughly a decade.
“After my ribs were broken, then he said things to me to try to indicate why he was unhappy but I think the, I guess to me the bottom line is it isn’t so important — if someone mugs you is it really justified for any reason?" Paul said.
Paul was involved in a separate attack in June when a gunman opened fire on a Republican congressional baseball practice in a Washington suburb.
"My colleagues come up all the time, and they want to make sure that there is some kind of deterrent because people don't want to think that it's open season on our elected officials," Paul said in an interview with CBS News this month.
"So yeah, I've been involved in violent attacks twice in the last year. And so, we're very aware of it," he said.
More Winning from AG Jeff Sessions.
“Boucher allegedly “had enough” after seeing Paul stack brush onto a pile near the senator’s property”
This doesn’t make sense. Paul is the Senator. Should it be “on the Senator’s property”?
I heard that Boucher is liberal. You wonder if he’s an unhinged liberal. Hopefully he will have plenty of time in prison to think about his bad life choices.
But if it's open season on citizens by illegals or cops, that's okay? Not saying what happened isn't wrong, but any assault on someone should have serious consequences for the perp. Including someone like Kate Steinle, where the perp gets a slap on the wrist for murder. This guy faces up to 10 years in prison for knocking Rand Paul down.
There’s something screwy because it goes on to say:
“Boucher then ran onto Paul’s property and tackled him”
Yep, what you say is correct.
It is a disgrace it took this long. This wouldn’t have happened if the parties were swapped.
What took so long?
“Paul said in an interview with CBS News this month.”
I don’t understand why any decent person would give CBS an interview.
in before someone accused mitch mcconnell of being ultimately responsible for the assault.
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...This guy faces up to 10 years in prison for knocking Rand Paul down.
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SIX broken ribs just by knocking someone down. I don’t think so...
I hear that Rand Paul had 6 broken ribs. All I’ve ever heard is that he tackled him. That doesn’t sound plausible.
Yeah. It isn’t clear. Makes no sense.
“I heard that Boucher is liberal. You wonder if he’s an unhinged liberal.”
Liberals are not unhinged. They are just unrepentant scu&bags who do what they want, when they want, never expecting any ramifications. Just like ANTIFA.)
But in this case, ramifications may about to be rammed.
(Hopefully.)
IMHO
Only because Paul is in the protected class. You and I aren't!
I thought Paul was attacked while mowing his lawn, not stacking brush near his property line?
“ALLEGED attacker”?
Please! This PC “alleged” crap just has to stop.
Protected Class?
The man is a US Senator and requires extraordinary protection. Absent that protection our government would always be subject to attack.
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