Those of you who don't know what Karl Rove and friends have done to Mississippi trial lawyer (and Democratic donor) Paul Minor must look into it. You can start with Scott Horton's piece, at http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001343, and follow up by Googling Minor.
And here's the latest news from Larisa Alexandrovna: Friends, The US Attorney, Dunnica Lampton, who tried Paul Minor twice for a crime that was not a crime has announced his retirement. This is part of what is commonly called the US Attorney Scandal or the politicization of the US DOJ. <http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090129/NEWS/90129029/-1/frontpagetabmodule-1V>http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090129/NEWS/90129029/-1/frontpagetabmodule-1V I suspect that this retirement has something to do with this, in part: <http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Treasury_Department_investigating_US_Attorney_for_1201.html>http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Treasury_Department_investigating_US_Attorney_for_1201.html Dunnica Lampton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, is already under investigation for allegations of political prosecutions in his state. According to new documents viewed by Raw Story, Lampton allegedly shared the private income tax records of then-Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr. with the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance and with one of its then-commissioners, his distant cousin Leslie B. Lampton. <snip> RAW STORY reported earlier this year that the Justice Department was probing US Attorney Lampton for allegedly sharing confidential tax returns "of a target of one of his prosecutions with non-authorized individuals." At that time, sources did not disclose whose tax records were shared or with whom. Diaz was initially unaware that his income tax records had been shared, the documents show. However, in the summer of 2006, the Commission notified Diaz that he was under investigation, and documents provided to the Commission by the US Attorney -- including Diaz's income tax returns -- were handed over to him as part of that ethics investigation. It is unclear what the Commission knew regarding the tax returns and the authorization needed. The Commission did not respond to calls or emails requesting comment for this article. The income tax returns allegedly provided to the Commission by Lampton covered the years 1996-2003 for Diaz, his wife Jennifer, and their then-business, the Green Oaks Bed and Breakfast. The tax returns entered into the court record during Diaz's second trial did not include the years 1996, 2002 and 2003. These years were, however, among the documents allegedly provided by the US Attorney's office to the Commission. In addition, Diaz's wife, who never went to trial, had only one tax return, for the year 2000, entered into the public record as part of her husband's case. Her tax records for other years, however, were also allegedly provided to the Commission. Paul Minor, however, continues to sit in jail for not committing any crime (donations to judges are legal in Miss.) while his wife of 40 years has gone into short-term hospice. They have not seen each other for a good long time, and likely will never see each other again. I think the investigation, coupled with the Rove testimony (he will show, he would be a fool not to), has sent Lampton into hiding. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
