They look about the same age...
Florida P.I. Peter F. Crummey
Posted on 01/25/2003 3:07:17 PM PST by kattracks
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have obtained the sealed records in the alleged Internet sex sting of former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter to review for possible federal charges.
State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi signed an order Thursday requiring police and Albany County prosecutors to provide records and any evidence to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office.
Federal authorities filed a motion earlier in the week to obtain the records to determine whether federal laws were violated, the Daily Gazette of Schenectady and the Times Union of Albany reported in Saturday editions.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Pericak refused to comment to the newspapers. A message to his office by The Associated Press was not immediately returned Saturday.
Ritter, 41, a critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, acknowledged his June 2001 arrest this week in national television appearances but said he was prohibited from discussing details because the charges had been dismissed and the records sealed.
Ritter has suggested recent news reports about the arrest were an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity has forced him to cancel a recent trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action.
Broadcast reports when he was arrested and recent newspaper reports have indicated Ritter was caught in an Internet sex sting, something he did not admit.
At the time of the arrest, NBC station WNYT-TV of Albany reported that William Scott Ritter Jr. -- Ritter's full name -- was charged with trying to lure an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl to a restaurant.
WNYT broadcast Ritter's mug shot but did not make the connection to his role as the chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq during most of the 1990s.
He was charged with attempted endangerment of a child, a misdemeanor that carries up to 90 days in jail, reports said. The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning that if he stayed out of trouble for six months, the charges would disappear and the file would be sealed.
True....maybe the dishonorable "judge" will come forward and tell us who the idiot is.
He can't; it goes against his AGENDA.
Of course; that's why Daschole has been pounding on Rush; why all the liberal/socialist/commies hate talk shows.....
he said
I suppose that's how language melts into the blob.
From Town of Colonie Directory of Departments(March 4, 2001 via The Wayback Machine web archives)
Philip Caponera, Town Justice 1/98-12/01
Peter Crummey, Town Justice 1/00-12/03
Mary Sweeney, Town Justice 1/98-12/01
Ping to Alamo-girl for the FOB/FOH question.
You can bet if scuddy boy has his way, we'll know nothing, because he already thinks it's nobody's business, most especially, I bet, the mothers of teenage daughters.
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That's pretty funny. If only I had so much power. I'm just a guy with a keyboard, a brain, and the ability to send CNN a cut and paste of Pitt's own words.
I am wondering how I could have orchestrated the Ritter "smear" campaign. Let's see. Fly to New York. Bribe someone to violate the judge's order not to talk. Get my hands on the sealed case file. Or, I know. Maybe I am the one who posed as a 14-year-old girl and told him I wanted him to buy me a kid's meal and play with himself in front of me by the slide at the Burger King. That's a good scenario. Yep, DFU must have done it. They caught me.
Well, this is most interesting.
Can a legal type explain why the result could be:
But the Times Union reported this move could result in further prosecution on the federal level.
They look about the same age...
Florida P.I. Peter F. Crummey
That'd kinda put the pep in the gumbo don't you reckon'? What really stirs my interest in this story is why the coverup and who stood to gain from it. Or am I getting close to needing tinfoil again?
Otherwise known as "How Two Vicious FReepers CONSPIRED Against Me!
You should both be ASHAMED for ruining such a fine UPSTANDING man's life! </sarcasm>
When has the DU ever been right about anything??
Patheic, isn't it? Maybe President Bush set up Scott Peterson. </sarcasm>
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