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UN's Ritter faced sex rap
New York Daily News ^ | 1/19/03 | Joe Mahoney

Posted on 01/19/2003 1:15:49 AM PST by kattracks

ALBANY - Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was secretly prosecuted in Albany County in 2001 after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

Ritter, who lives in the Albany suburb of Delmar, is now a high-profile critic of President Bush's war preparations.

He was arrested by Colonie Police in June 2001 on a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet with an undercover investigator he thought was an underage girl, law enforcement sources disclosed on condition of anonymity.

The case was sealed, and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records, explaining the matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal.

The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported yesterday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter.

Clyne said that as a "sensitive" case, it should have been brought to his attention.

Ritter, who has made frequent appearances on network television after speaking to the Iraq National Assembly last year, could not be reached for comment.

Joe Mahoney



TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: napalminthemorning; pedophile; scottritter; treason; un; weaponsinspector; wot
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To: MeeknMing

In that case, he should be made to register at the State Dept. as a foreign agent.

241 posted on 01/19/2003 9:15:41 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: happygrl
Why hasn't this come out before ?

Looks more like a rumor started to discredit Ritter. Let's see the evidence if there is any. Oh, excuse me -- it's sealed. Posting is a hoax.

Richard W.

242 posted on 01/19/2003 9:15:56 AM PST by arete (Greenspan is an enemy of the people)
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To: Amelia
Your theory doesn't make sense though. Why would the government be blackmailing Ritter to speak out against the government?

Maybe they were trying to win his cooperation, and it didn't work? Or maybe they wanted to have an agent on whom they could rely prominent in the antiwar movement?

What I don't understand is why this news came out now. Maybe Ritter broke the deal he made with whoever it was.

243 posted on 01/19/2003 9:16:47 AM PST by aristeides
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To: Howlin; Chad Fairbanks
LOL........now stop.....I need to go out and your remarks are slowing me down!

You know that's just going to encourage him.

;-)

244 posted on 01/19/2003 9:17:04 AM PST by Amelia (Who's sending missile parts to Iraq?)
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To: kattracks
So THAT'S the misdemeanor Ritter was charged with!!

When the story was broke yesterday by a local reporter for a Schenectedy (sp?) newspaper, courthouse officials were refusing to say WHAT he was charged with...but an assistant DA was canned for covering it up.

I see that Ritter isn't commenting anymore...guess the "you must have the wrong guy" routine wasn't working.

245 posted on 01/19/2003 9:17:18 AM PST by cake_crumb (What would we do without FR? Don't wait to find out. Become a monthly donor.)
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To: aristeides
Wonder who the judge was?
246 posted on 01/19/2003 9:18:01 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: geedee; Howlin
OK, more fodder, but only if Kate Jackson is cast in my role. HAHA!

Ignoring the people who see everyone in the conspiracy, I shall return to my initial thesis. If you will remember, one of the ways that the Clintons turned people was a two pronged approach. They would find a peson who was compromised, but also offer them a bribe (money, job, etc.) If the person spoke out, not only were they compromised by the initial scandal, but they were also under the pay of a Clinton crony, so that they were deemed untrustworthy and ungrateful.

For example, the former Miss America who was both threatened with disclosure of her one-night (apparently unwilling) liason with Clinton, but also was given a role in a television production by Harry Tommason. This is the same pattern. The initial assumption we made when first suspecting Ritter was that he had done this for the money. (Sounds suspiciously like the "book deal" accusation often made against Clinton enemies, doesn't it?) Now we find out what the initial hook was to keep him in line.

I am not explaining myself very well, I think. In almost every case (Webb Hubbell, Susan McDougal,etc.) there was both a threat and a pay-off. The pay-off covers up the threat, should the media go looking into motivation.

247 posted on 01/19/2003 9:19:38 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Squantos
Maybe there was a little more info in his FBI file that Hillary let on.
248 posted on 01/19/2003 9:20:25 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: big ern
I have to wonder if he knew the possibility was better than average that he would be charged and felt if he could be "anti-anything" his little-gator could make such a charge look like "revenge" aka false dirt to divert from his nobel and worthwile seditious efforts for the Iraqis ... yada yada yada yak yak ect ect.............old ritter the traitor just trying to save his own punk @ss IMO.....if the allegations turn out to be "true" .
249 posted on 01/19/2003 9:20:35 AM PST by Squantos (Stay Safe Ya'll !)
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To: Miss Marple
Right you are
250 posted on 01/19/2003 9:21:26 AM PST by woofie
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To: Amelia; Howlin
Actually, I think someone should post a "Things Scott Ritter would say in a chat room" post... could be interesting ;0)
251 posted on 01/19/2003 9:22:30 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening.)
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To: rolling_stone
I could guess, but it really doesn't matter. A paid foreign agent is covered by an attorney who may be guilty of gross attorney/judicial misconduct. I want the facts, that's all.

If no one has anything to hide, this should be a simple matter, right?

Right Mr. Ritter? Right, Ms. Prieser?

252 posted on 01/19/2003 9:23:17 AM PST by friendly
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To: aristeides
Isn't DAnconia55 right that the judge would also have to agree to keep the matter sealed?

I don't know New York law, but I do know the judge in my state would have to approve of the agreement. However, in Wisconsin, these are called "deferred prosecution agreements" and the judge holds the hearings to approve the DPAs in open court. Once the terms of the DPA are met--usually staying out of trouble for a certain number of months (usually 6 to 24 months), the charges are dismissed and the case goes away. If the person under the DPA gets busted during that time period, the person gets prosecuted on the original charges PLUS the new ones. It's like probation, except this is pre-conviction and there's no visit to a PO. The person is just trusted to be good for that length of time.

It could be the judge's tush is going to be on the line as well. But if only Ritter's lawyer appeared for William S. Ritter (Scott is his middle name) and the prosecutor and defense attorney were in agreement, all the judge would've done is rubber stamp it. He or she may not have known that this was Scott Ritter, talking head.

I do wonder, though, why the ADA would risk her job--and probably her career and law license (if not disbarment, at least a bar ethics investigation and a possible suspension of her law license)--for Scott Ritter. And I wonder where she's working now.

253 posted on 01/19/2003 9:24:38 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: Howlin
Let's place a bet on Neil Cavuto.."Scott, would you care to explain the rumors of your sex charges"..

Scott: "Listen up, buddy boy, are all out to get me, every single one of you..Back off now, just back off and let the weapons team do their job..This isn't about ME, it's never been about ME! It's about our boys going to war, getting killed. I love our country..I served in the military!!! I AM a true Patriot!! Let's stay focused on the REAL issue here!".

Wipes foam off his mouth.. as he pops another upper.

254 posted on 01/19/2003 9:25:23 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (Ritter is perverted, I knew it!))
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Actually, I think someone should post a "Things Scott Ritter would say in a chat room" post... could be interesting.

"Let me show you my weapons of mass destruction, little sugar plum..."

"Is that an Assistant District Attorney in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?..."

255 posted on 01/19/2003 9:26:12 AM PST by friendly
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To: Miss Marple; Boot Hill; Kevin Curry

Hadly so. That ideologue loon also likes to argue for the legalization of child pornography possession.

256 posted on 01/19/2003 9:28:40 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: friendly
"My small pox isnt all that small,honey"
257 posted on 01/19/2003 9:29:17 AM PST by woofie
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To: friendly
"Hey little girl, wanna play 'Iraqi Children's Prison'?"
258 posted on 01/19/2003 9:31:07 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening.)
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To: spectre
We watch way too much TV, don't we? :-) When you can mock somebody PERFECTLY, it's one of two things: we have the TV on too much, or he's on too much.

Since Scott went for some kind of world record one day last week, I believe it's the last one! (Works for me!)

259 posted on 01/19/2003 9:31:38 AM PST by Howlin (It's yet ANOTHER good day to be a Republican!)
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To: aristeides
What I don't understand is why this news came out now.

From the article this thread is based on:

The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported yesterday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter.

It does appear reporters have not exactly jumped on the story, so the "coming out" seems to be limited so far to readers of said article, Newsmax and Free Republic.

260 posted on 01/19/2003 9:33:33 AM PST by cyncooper
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