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MONTGOMERY News:
20071004
-
 Jeff
Sessions
-  Karl
Rove
- Ala
- US
Attorneys -  Money
-  Political
-  Enforcement
- "Selective
Justice in Alabama?" ... "On may 8, 2002, Clayton
Lamar (Lanny) Young Jr., a lobbyist and landfill developer described by
acquaintances as a hard-drinking "good ole boy," was in an expansive mood.
In the downtown offices of the U.S. Attorney in Montgomery, Ala. [Alabama],
Young settled into his chair, personal lawyer at his side, and proceeded
to tell a group of seasoned prosecutors and investigators that he had paid
tens of thousands of dollars in apparently illegal campaign contributions
to some of the biggest names in Alabama Republican politics. According
to Young, among the recipients of his largesse were the state's former
attorney general [Alabama Republican Senator] Jeff Sessions, now a U.S.
Senator, and [Republican] William Pryor Jr., Sessions' successor as attorney
general and now a federal judge. Young, whose detailed statements are described
in documents obtained by TIME, became a key witness in a major case in
Alabama that brought down a high-profile politician and landed him in federal
prison with an 88-month sentence. As it happened, however, that official
was the top Democrat named by Young in a series of interviews, and none
of the Republicans whose campaigns he fingered were investigated in the
case, let alone prosecuted." ... "The case of Don Siegelman, the Democratic
former Governor of Alabama who was convicted last year on corruption charges,
has become a flash point in the debate over the politicization of the [Republican
President] Bush Administration's Justice Department. Forty-four former
state attorneys general — Republicans and Democrats — have cited "irregularities"
in the investigation and prosecution, saying they "call into question the
basic fairness that is the linchpin of our system of justice."" ... "[Republican]
Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution,
is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative
and a longtime friend of [Republican] Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer
and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement
that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice"
about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys."
... "Young testified that he had furnished Siegelman with an all-terrain
vehicle and a motorcycle, lavishing money on the Governor and his aides.
But he was an equal-opportunity influence monger. Early in the investigation,
in November 2001, Young announced that five years earlier, he "personally
provided Sessions with cash campaign contributions," according to an FBI
memo of the interview. Prosecutors didn't follow up that surprising statement
with questions, but Young volunteered more. The memo adds that "on one
occasion he [Young] provided Session [sic] with $5,000 to $7,000 using
two intermediaries," one of whom held a senior position with Sessions'
campaign. On another occasion, the FBI records show, Young talked about
providing "$10,000 to $15,000 to Session [sic]. Young had his secretaries
and friends write checks to the Sessions campaign and Young reimbursed
the secretaries and friends for their contributions."" ... "If true, Young's
statements describe political money laundering that would be a clear violation
of federal law. In 1996, when Young said he had made the contributions,
it was illegal to give a candidate more than $1,000 for a primary or general
campaign." (1, 2,
3)
-By Adam Zagorin -TIME.com
20051025
-
 Michigan
- Alabama
- Civil
Righs - Transportation
- Politics
-  Law
-  History
-  Woman
- "Rosa
Parks, civil rights icon, dead at 92: With act of
dignity, a movement began." ... "Rosa Parks, the Alabama seamstress whose
soft-spoken refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man triggered the
Montgomery [Alabama] bus boycott, the first great mass action in the civil
rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, died yesterday. She was 92." ...
"Mrs. Parks died at her home in Detroit [Michigan] of natural causes, according
to a spokesman for US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan."
... "The boycott brought to national prominence a 26-year-old Baptist minister
named Martin Luther King Jr. He later inscribed a copy of his book ''Stride
Toward Freedom" to Mrs. Parks, ''Whose creative witness," he wrote, ''was
the great force that led to the modern stride toward freedom."" ... "That
act of ''creative witness" made Mrs. Parks a world icon of freedom and
earned her the popular title ''mother of the civil rights movement."" -By
Mark Feeney -Boston/Globe
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