On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:42:55 -0600, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:54:23 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote:

Cheney and Co have been indicted on what charges?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/...ales.indicted/

Page not found.





Your twisted world view makes you look buffoonish.

Hummm..you ARE a buffoon, mea culpa

Gunner
BROWNSVILLE — A district attorney with a reputation for wackiness and
little time left in office has stunned observers by securing indictments
against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales and Brownsville Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., among others.

Is this reality TV or something that will prove real?

At least for now, the White House isn't saying. But Lucio's lawyer
described outgoing Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra as
a circus act.

Guerra, a 53-year-old Rio Grande Valley prosecutor who drew national
attention for suing counterparts in the county justice system and
staging a protest with barnyard animals, long has alleged high-ranking
corruption in the deals that brought the impoverished county a $60
million immigration detention center.

On Monday, he got a grand jury to sign off on a slew of indictments
including an acceptance of honorarium charge against Lucio and an
engaging in organized criminal activity charge against Cheney and
Gonzales.

“I didn't intend to go after the vice president. That was not my
intention,” said Guerra, who dubbed the investigation Operation Goliath.
“We just followed the money, followed the corruption. It just happened
that it just took us all the way to Washington.”

Lucio's lawyer, Michael Cowan, fired back Tuesday with a news release
trumpeting Guerra's continued “one-man circus.”

“Having been voted out of office, Willacy County DA commits one last act
of political revenge,” Cowan said. “With only a few weeks left in his
term, Mr. Guerra has again chosen to misuse his position in an attempt
to seek revenge on those who he sees as political enemies.”

Cheney is accused of contributing to the neglect of federal immigration
detainees by contracting for-profit prisons.

“By working through corporations as prisons for profit, Defendant
Richard Cheney has committed at least misdemeanor assaults of our
inmates and/or detainees,” the indictment reads, adding that a “money
trail” can be traced to Cheney's substantial investments in the Vanguard
Group, which invests in privately run prisons.

Megan Mitchell, spokeswoman for Cheney, said: “We have not received an
indictment. We haven't received a call from the district attorney's
office. ... We haven't heard anything from the district attorney.”

Guerra said he kept Operation Goliath secret for four months over
concern that pressure would be brought to bear to stop it.

He said “everything was being worked out of my house” and only one
trusted member of his staff knew about it. He said he enlisted the help
of people all over the country and talked to witnesses all over the
country. Everyone who helped was assigned a biblical name. Guerra was
known as David.

He said the investigation continues and that when he leaves office,
he'll probably ask for a special prosecutor to be named.

Cowan said he was working on a motion to quash the indictment against
Lucio, which is based on allegations Lucio misused his contacts and
influence as a senator in his consulting work. Guerra has said another
company could have built the facility for half the cost.

“There's no crime here,” Cowan said. “The senator's done nothing wrong.
Being a senator is not a fulltime job — you're allowed to have outside
employment.”

Also named in at least eight separate indictments:

?GEO Group, Inc., formerly Wackenhut Corrections Corp., and David
Forrest, a warden, for murder and manslaughter of an inmate in 2001.

?District Clerk Gilbert Lozano for official abuse of official capacity
and official oppression.

?Special prosecutor Gustavo Garza for official abuse of official
capacity and official oppression.

?Special prosecutor Mervyn Mosbacker for official abuse of official
capacity and official oppression.

?District Judge Migdalia Lopez for official abuse of official capacity
and official oppression

?District Judge Janet Leal for official abuse of official capacity and
official oppression.

Guerra said he has requested that those indicted be given a summons to
appear.

Guerra himself has faced indictment before and has defended himself in a
colorful fashion while claiming to be the target of political vendettas.

In 2007, after being indicted on public theft charges, he camped in
front of the county jail with goats, roosters and a horse to symbolize
what he called a “circus” against him. Those charges were dismissed, as
more recently were other indictments accusing him of corruption
including tampering with government records and abusing his office.

Guerra later sued the county judge, county sheriff, county clerks, and
others.

Guerra has contended the indictments against him were meant to keep him
from being re-elected. He lost in the March primary election.

Regarding Lucio's comment that the indictments are a circus act, he
said, “This was a grand jury that had been looking into this for the
past four months. That's belittling the grand jury.”


Laugh laugh laugh...the old adage IS true...a nutcase can indict a ham
sandwich. Looks like he forgot the sandwich, but he got everyone
else....even the court clerk.

ROFLMAO!

He must be a Democrat, based on his lunacy.

Gunner