Free Republic

WASHINGTON (AP) — Back when federal lawmakers legally could be paid for speaking to outside groups, John Kerry collected more than $120,000 in fees from interests as diverse as big oil, tobacco, the liquor lobby and unions, records show. Between 1985 and 1990, Kerry's first five years in the Senate from Massachusetts, he pocketed annual amounts slightly under the limits for speaking fees set by Congress. Unlike many colleagues, he donated a speaking fee to charity only once, according to annual financial disclosure reports reviewed by The Associated Press. One of the companies to pay Kerry $1,000 for a speech...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, imprisoned in Michigan for assisted suicide, is being called upon as an expert witness to help in a pollution case in Brunswick. But don't expect the man known nationally as Dr. Death to appear in a Glynn County courtroom. Lawyers for the nearly 200 people suing the former owners of a chemical plant on the Turtle River are planning to present his testimony by either a written or taped deposition. Kevorkian is serving 10 to 25 years in prison after giving CBS a videotape of one of his physician-assisted suicides. "Back in the 1970s he was doing...

Jack Kevorkian, the doctor jailed for participating in physician-assisted suicides, is expected to be used as an expert witness in a Brunswick pollution case. Kevorkian is expected to provide a written or taped deposition from prison for lawyers of the nearly 200 people suing Allied Signal Incorporated, which formerly owned LCP Chemicals' Turtle River chemical plant. Kevorkian, who is serving out a ten-to-25-year prison sentence in Michigan, did research in the 1970s on mercury and its toxicity.