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. Attorneys 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 isnt 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.
The attacker is an anesthesiologist. Access to lots of drugs. Lots of psychoactive goodies. Propensity to indulge. Off his nut. He’ll be popular in the Big House.
Quite possibly so.
Just want to point out that the sanctuary status of the floor of the Senate led to some weird things.
I once broke 8 ribs and my sternum at the same time (a jack stand failed while I was under a car). About two months later, when I thought I was pretty much fully recovered, I was standing on line at the Kroger store in Blacksburg, Virginia, waiting to buy a 12 pack of beer, when out of nowhere I had a brief coughing fit.
The pain literally caused me to drop to my knees gasping, with tears in my eyes. I recovered the ability to speak just in time to stop the store manager from calling an ambulance. He thought I was having a heart attack.
The stacking brush is total stooge BS. Pauls wife laid out what happened after the attack. She refuted all of the lawn war crap. The attacker was simply another libtard ginned up by Rat lies and the MSM stooges. This is same scenario Paul saw at the attempted softball massacre.
This antifi wannabe has plead guilty!
You poor wretch. That was brutal. Mine was on black ice on my own freaking sidewalk 9 years ago this month. They still hurt from time to time. Never knitted back properly.
Good. He needs to. But we can thank him for helping to teach Senator Paul that we aren’t in a play war, we’re in a REAL war.
Well, same as my dissonance when I read that he “suffered six broken ribs” as a result of a “tackle.”
Whether the urge was there or not, I would Never assault Schumer if he lived next door.
I’d just pray a lot more for strength :)
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