A Tea Party favorite for the U.S. Senate in Ohio has just been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful conduct with a minor: A New Lebanon man, running for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, has been indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on sex charges. Eric Deaton was indicted on one count […]
Welcome to justice Friday: The former president of Blackwater Worldwide has been indicted on weapons charges. An indictment issued Friday charges Gary Jackson along with four others, including former general counsel Andrew Howell and former executive vice president Bill Mathews. The charges against Jackson include a conspiracy to violate firearms laws, false statements and possession […]
I have reported previously about the criminal problems facing my home county in Ohio. Today another big Republican name has been indicted: A former Butler County commissioner, state lawmaker and Children Services director has been indicted on federal charges. Mike Fox was indicted on six charges of mail or wire fraud, while attorney Robert Schuler […]
Michelle Bachmann is back in the news, this time lying about the stimulus. She is making the false claim that ACORN will get $5 billion from the stimulus while under indictment. Again – a flat out lie. So I was just thinking about this. If this was even true, then why hasn’t Bachmann voiced outrage […]
This is a Bush administration official with direct knowledge admitting that we torture detainees: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with […]
A lot of people have been trying to paint Jesse Jackson Jr. as being corrupt since it was revealed he was referred to in the Blago indictment. Well it turns out Jackson had actually gone to the feds about Blago’s serious lack of ethics: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint […]
Very, very interesting: A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers. The indictment criticizes Cheney’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal […]
Oh yeah – more like this please: Sarah Palin felt so strongly about the public corruption indictment of a Republican state senator this summer that she urged him to resign — but not strongly enough to return the $1,000 he gave to help elect her governor. She is ready to be President! She can talk […]
John McCain has received a damming indictment from a predominant Evangelical leader: Richard Cizik is one of the country’s most powerful and outspoken Christian evangelical leaders. He happens to be a Republican, and he has known the GOP’s presidential nominee for many years. “I thought John McCain was a principled person,” Cizik says. “But John […]
Just now breaking on MSNBC. More as the details come out. UPDATE 1: The DOJ will be holding a news conference at 1:20pm est today to discuss the charges returned by the grand jury. UPDATE 2 (and bumped) A PDF of the indictment is available here. The news conference is just now starting (1/2 hour […]